VNI Software Request Form
Company Info:
Visual Numerics is the leading developer of Visualization and Numerical
Analysis software in the world. With over 600,000 users worldwide and $35
million in revenue, Visual Numerics has just completed its 25th year in the
software industry. Created by the 1992 merger of IMSL, Precision Visuals,
and 3-D Visions Corp., Visual Numerics provides industry-leading and
mission-critical solutions to both developers and end-users in business,
engineering, research and education worldwide. The privately held company
is headquartered in Houston, with offices in Boulder, San Francisco,
Cleveland, London, Paris, Stuttgart, Tokyo, and Taipei, and has 22
distributors representing 65 countries.
Web URL:
http://www.vni.com/
Products:
PV-WAVE Advantage
IMSL Libraries
ObjectSuite
Stanford Graphics
PV-WAVE is a Rapid Application Development Environment (RADE)
array-oriented, real-time, interactive, interpretive 4GL programming
environment that lets users develop applications to visually display,
interpret, manipulate, and analyze large amounts of complex data.
Functionality includes state-of-the-art 2D, 3D & 4D graphics, integrated
analytical, mathematical, and statistical functions, animation, signal
processing, image processing, volume-rendering, and GUI development. Version 6.0 is
completely cross-platform compatible; meaning that an application written in
WAVE for Windows 95 will run under UNIX, and vice versa. PV-WAVE also has a wide
variety of toolkit options:
- Signal Processing Toolkit provides a broad
selection of pre-defined and customizable Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
functions to improve your analysis and simulations.
- Database Connection: Direct links into Oracle,
Sybase, and Informix databases for database visualization. This direct link
allows standard SQL commands to be generated in PV-WAVE for querying,
extracting, subsetting, and displaying record-based data.
- Maple is an enhanced version of Waterloo Maple
V software for direct access from PV-WAVE to: symbolic algebra, integration,
matrix algebra, differential equation solvers, and advanced calculus
functions.
- GTGRID is a high-performance advanced gridding
toolkit from Geophysical Techniques. It accommodates very large datasets
containing discontinuities, irregular and missing data, and allows precision
control of the gridding process.
- UIM/X is an advanced GUI development
environment for serious application programmers who want the flexibility
and power to develop their own complex interface from scratch. UIM/X is
among the leaders in GUI development environments and this toolkit allows a
direct link into PV-WAVE applications.
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The IMSL Libraries for C, Fortran 90, and FORTRAN 77, are the
world's leading development tools for technical applications. The libraries
are user-callable subroutines for scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and
business professionals who build applications to analyze and present data.
The use of these professionally designed mathematical, statistical, and
graphics subroutines lets C and FORTRAN programmers realize significant
savings in the time and cost of developing applications. Exponent Graphics
and the IMSL Fortran 90 MP Library are also in the IMSL software family.
IMSL Exponent Graphics is an interactive graphics library of
application-level routines for producing business and technical charts. For
use with FORTRAN, C, and X application programming.
- An efficient object-oriented approach to FORTRAN programming. Using
Fortran 90 leads to much faster application development, by taking advantage
of the following features: optional arguments, interface modules, array
intrinsics, array syntax, and many more! Operators and function modules
provide faster and more natural programming through an object-oriented
approach. Interface modules for all user-callable Fortran 90 and FORTRAN 77
subroutines reduce development effort by checking data type matches and array
size at compile time. Source code document examples allow a quick start to
Fortran 90 programming via full Fortran 90 compliant code. Over 60 Fortran
90 coded, not translated, subroutines that feature redesigned algorithms that
take full advantage of Fortran 90 features for efficient program execution.
Finally, complete IMSL FORTRAN 77 Numerical Libraries are included so that no
code modifications are required for existing applications that rely on the
IMSL FORTRAN 77 Libraries.
Why labor over extraneous parameters in your FORTRAN programs when you
can use the Linear Operators in the IMSL MP Library to simplify your
programming with a more algebraic approach?
ObjectSuite is a family of C++ object-oriented development tools for
mathematics, signal processing, and business charting. Ideally suited for
object-oriented developers building business, scientific, and research
applications, the IMSL Math Module for C++ includes a variety of precisions
for: complex arithmetic, vectors, matrices, matrix factorization, splines,
and random number generation. The IMSL Signal Processing Module for C++
greatly reduces the amount of code required to solve signal processing
problems involving: complex numbers, vector and matrix computations, signals
and systems (models and analysis), filter approximation, filter realization,
transforms and spectrum analysis, statistical signal processing, polynomial
manipulation, and random number generation. The IMSL Business Charting
Module for C++ provides a comprehensive set of business graphs such as bar
charts, pie charts, scatter plots, and 3D surface and contour plots. It is
currently the only portable C++ OO charting package in the world.
Stanford Graphics is an easy-to-use PC presentation graphics and analysis
software package for technical data. With over 171 graph types that can be
easily selected from the visual Graph Gallery, as well as advanced data
analysis tools, Stanford Graphics has a powerful 4D spreadsheet that can
link to all popular Windows-based applications and ASCII data files.
Thanks to Visual Numerics Incorporated's
extremely generous offer, selected software and manuals
are available free of charge to anyone at Virginia Tech. Of course,
nothing's ever truly free; you must fill out this form completely before
we will issue the software (that's still pretty cheap!).
If you would like to review detailed product literature, please send a note
to Ron Kriz. Just tell us what
product(s) you're interested in and where we can mail the brochures.