<div dir="ltr"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">HPCWire</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> is holding their Annual Reader’s Choice Awards. Please take</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the time to nominate VTK and ParaView for this year’s awards.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All you need to do is to submit the projects, products or solutions</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">you feel should be honored by receiving an award to the appropriate</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(max of 3) categories before the deadline </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">at:</span><div><a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/2014-hpcwire-readers-choice-awards/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">hpcwire</span>.com/2014-<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">hpcwire</span>-readers-choice-awards/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Anyone may can nominate their project, collaboration, product or</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">solution, and you do not need to fill the entire form out. Only the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">categories(s) for which you feel your organization is qualified to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">receive an award. You may submit as many nominations as you like.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Those who make it past the nominations will move on to the September</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">elections for selecting this year's finalists by our readers.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Recent and near term user visible developments in the lands of VTK and ParaView include:</div>

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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>VTK</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><br></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* vtkDax, vtkPiston and vtkSMP: bringing GPGPU and multicore speed to VTK.</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* vtkWeb - VTK based web services simply by enabling VTK_WRAP_PYTHON</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* vtk.</span><code style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="line-height:10px">numpy_interface -</span></code><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> numpy processing moves beyond arrays into datasets</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">* <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">OpenGL2.1+ rendering - promising both render speed and extensibility improvements</font></p><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>

<b>ParaView</b></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* vector graphics screen exports</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* parallel and composite SurfaceLIC representations of vector fields</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* streamlined properties and view options panels</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* the Python View allows just about any Python library to generate images in ParaView views.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

</div><br><div><div>David E DeMarle<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: <a href="tel:518-881-4909" value="+15188814909" target="_blank">518-881-4909</a></div>


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