Archive for August, 2009
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
IDL 7.1: iTools procedural API
One major problem with the iTools is that controlling them via a script can be quite complicated (and I’m not even talking about extending them, i.e., adding new capabilities to them). IDL 7.1 is a major change in the programmatic iTools API: many routines were renamed, several routines were added, and a couple keywords were [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in IDL,iTools by Michael Galloy
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
MAKE_RT über-installation
The MAKE_RT routine was added in IDL 7.0 to make it easier to distribute an application that runs on the IDL Virtual Machine. Given the location of a .sav file and an application name, MAKE_RT copies the .sav file and all the IDL Virtual Machine files necessary to run it into the output directory. It [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in IDL by Michael Galloy
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Snow Leopard available for pre-order
Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” is available for pre-order from Amazon.com for $29. One of the features of Snow Leopard, is OpenCL, basically a wrapper around CUDA which is emerging as a standard for writing GPU processing code.
