Archive for April, 2011
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Object Oriented Programming with IDL by Ronn Kling
Ronn Kling’s Object Oriented Programming with IDL is an excellent introduction to object-oriented programming with IDL. The beginning chapters introduce object-oriented concepts like encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism along with IDL’s basic syntax for creating classes. This should be straight-forward for anyone comfortable with writing normal routines in IDL. Later chapters cover more sophisticated topics like [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Books,IDL,Objects by Michael Galloy
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Slug’s Guide to IDL website
One of the great finds from VISualize last week was Robert da Silva’s Slug’s Guide to IDL. It’s got a fairly comprehensive list of tutorials, some written by Robert on the site while others are links to familiar web sites like the Coyote’s Guide to IDL, about various IDL topics.
No Comments » - Posted in IDL by Michael Galloy
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
GPUs in astronomy
Astonomy Computing Today recently has had a series of articles about using GPUs in astronmy: The Use of Graphical Processing Units (GPU’s) In Astronomy, GPU’s in Astronomy: Critical Decisions for Early Adopters, and GPU’s vs. CPU’s: Apples vs. Oranges?. I think these articles give a great, brief introduction to using a GPU for calculations including [...]
No Comments » - Posted in HPC,IDL by Michael Galloy
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
What’s new in IDL 8.1 webinar
ITT VIS is hosting a webinar at 2 pm (EDT) about the new features in IDL 8.1. Topics for discussion: Data Visualization, including new Graphics routines and display features, new mapping features and an interface that exposes event handling in a Graphics window File Access, including reading and writing GRIB/2 files, writing to KML/KMZ files [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IDL,News by Michael Galloy
Monday, April 18th, 2011
IDL 8.1 released
IDL 8.1 was released last week during VISualize. This caught me a bit by surprise, but I will do a few posts on 8.1 features in the coming weeks. Here are the basic features: IDLffVideoWrite class for high-quality video output in either mp4 or avi files. This uses the FFmpeg library. There are now keywords [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IDL,News by Michael Galloy
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
GPU computing training course
Tech-X is providing GPU training: Tech-X Corporation is pleased to announce our next three-day training course for GPU computing using CUDA will be held from May 16 – 18 at our offices in Boulder, Colorado, USA. The cost for this training will be US$2,500 for all three days. This price includes lunch each day. If [...]
No Comments » - Posted in HPC,IDL by Michael Galloy
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
VISualize 2011 talk
Here are my slides from my talk about accessing remote data at VISualize today. Also, below is a listing of articles corresponding to the topics I talked about: netCDF and DAP bindings (no articles, yet) Line integral convolution (LIC) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Object graphics to POV-Ray 1, 2, 3, 4 IDLdoc mgunit 1, [...]
