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As a code developer, one must need a powerful debugger to really go into a huge code. I have this experience from my old university days where we used to have a debugger from sun microsystems (I dont remember the name) and later gnu debugger ddd+gdb. At that time I was not that happy with ddd as it was not that powerful as the sun debugger.

Now I started working on OpenFoam where one needs to understand a part of the code if one wants to implement new models. And there you go, here...

My Master Thesis "Numerical Simulation of the Filling and Curing Stages in Reaction Injection Moulding, using CFX" is available on the Donated Texts page http://www.cfd-online.com/Wiki/CFD-Wiki:donated_texts , or, in a better pdf quality (6.1MB), from http://sites.google.com/site/ruiigreja2/MyMasterThesis

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To many observers the rivalry between wind tunnels and CFD is a zero-sum game - as CFD matures it simply replaces wind tunnels. However, this is far from the truth. Often you'll find wind tunnels and CFD used together in a symbiotic process where one technique fills in knowledge gaps left by the other.

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Now that a user can have a blog on the CFD-Online forum, I thought I would try to write two or three entries of my blog, which I have written somewhere else in Japanese for about 2+ years, in English from now on and would see if they are of any use to people here. The blog is mainly about new releases of open source CAx softwares, plus a bit of information gatherd on their respective mailing lists, forums or sites.

New release: VisIt 1.11.2. Besides, there are several interesting materials...

Are we approaching the end of cluster computing for CFD? Or is it simply the end of the beginning of an era to be further dominated by clusters?

The premise is that a collection of computers (a cluster) can process data in parallel much faster and more cost effectively than a single standalone computer. Until recently clusters were the only viable means to compute large CFD simulations for engineering applications, such as those found in Formula 1.

Now we have available...