Kitware Sponsors Camp KDE

Kitware is sponsoring the first annual Camp KDE. Camp KDE 2009 is KDE's first annual developer conference to take place West of the Atlantic. This conf...

NIH Grant Supports Research Into Mapping the Brain With Machine Vision

For as much as we know about the human body, the inner workings of the brain remain elusive. This lack of understanding has precluded the development of a neuroprosthetic device, or brain implant, ...

ITK 3.10 Released

ITK 3.10 was released on November 4, 2008. The major changes in this release include:

• Implementation of kernel-base filters contributed by Richard Beare and Gaetan L...

Second Life Chooses CMake as its Build System

Linden Labs (http://lindenlab.com/), maker of the popular 3-D virtual world Second Life, has chosen CMake as its new build tool. Linden Lab switched to CMake for building the Second Life viewer (st...

ITK 3.8 Released

ITK 3.8 was released on July 30. The major changes in this release include:

• Introduction of the Diffeomorphic Demons deformable registration family of classes contributed by

VTKEdge Released

Kitware has enabled public read access to the VTKEdge source code repository. VTKEdge is still in the alpha stage right now, with continued development expected over the next few months. Highlights...

ParaView 3.4 Released

ParaView 3.4 release is now available for download from the ParaView website. It is also available through CVS; the tag is ParaView-3-4. Since the 3.2 release...

Kitware, Inc. Receives 2008 Best of Clifton Park Award

WASHINGTON D.C., October 15, 2008 -- Kitware, Inc. has been selected for the 2008 Best of Clifton Park Award in the Computer Software category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).

CDash 1.2 Released

CDash the open-source, web-based software testing server has had is second major release since May. CDash aggregates, analyzes and displays the results of software testing processes submitted from ...

Kitware, OSA release software for Interactive Scientific Publishing

Technology Enables Researchers to Interact with Author Data

Clifton Park, NY October 29 – Kitwa...

Kitware Sponsors VisWeek 2008

Kitware is a Gold Sponsor for IEEE VisWeek 2008 which will ...

Kitware Welcomes New Employees

Kitware welcomes several new employees to the team.

CMake 2.6.2 Released

CMake 2.6.2 was released on September 25, 2008. This release mainly addresses compatibility issues and bug fixes for the 2.6 branch of CMake. Combined with 2.6.1, 2.6...

New Open Source Project Sites

In late October Kitware will launch the new ParaView (paraview.org) and CDash (cdash.org) websites.

ParaView 3 Update

The LANL ParaView 3 contract is designed to provide support for ParaView and VTK and custom development to assist Jim Ahren's v...

ARL Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Contract

For the past two years Kitware has had funding from the Army Research Labs to explore the use of GPU (Graphics Processing Units...

InfoVis and Earth Kit

The Titan project with Sandia National Laboratories is focused on building informatics capabilities into VTK. There is now a mostly functional charting library in VTK based on Qt, which supports li...

Kitware awarded SBIR Phase II for 'Co-Processing for Unsteady CFD Simulations'

Kitware was recently awarded a Phase II SBIR from the Department of Defense. The purpose of this project is to develop tools for co-processing unsteady CFD codes for the purpose of visualization an...

Advanced ParaView Visualization Tutorial at VisWeek 2008

ParaView is a powerful open-source turnkey application for analyzing and visualizing scientific datasets ranging from small desktop-sized problems to the world’s largest simulations.  Pa...

Large Scale Visualization with ParaView Tutorial at Supercomputing 2008

Berk Geveci, Utkarsh Ayachit and Dave DeMarle from Kitware and Ken Moreland and John Greenfield from Sandia National Labs will be presenting a tutorial on “Large Scale Visualization with Para...

Kitware Awarded $6.7M DARPA Contract

Kitware will develop, evaluate and deploy a prototype system for content-based video retrieval

On September 11, 2008, Kitware was awarded a $6,735,503 Phase I contract f...

Kitware Wins Air Force Phase I STTR for Feature Extraction with ParaView

Kitware has partnered with David Thompson at Mississippi State University and Raghu Machiraju at Ohio State University on a Phase I Air Force STTR. Since this is an STTR, David Thompson will be the...

Kitware Wins DoE Phase I SBIR to Develop Collaborative Visualization with ParaView

Kitware has won a $100K Phase I SBIR with the Department of Energy. The proposed work aims to develop a parallel visualization system that will enable effective multiple remote collaborations for c...

Kitware, Inc. Ranks No. 3026 on the 2008 Inc. 5,000 List With Three-Year Sales Growth of 117.3%

Clifton Park, NY, August 22, 2008 – Inc. ranked Kitware, Inc. No. 3026 on its annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private compa...

CMake 2.6.1 Released

CMake 2.6.1 was released on August 1, 2008.

http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.6/CMakeChangeLog-2.6.2

CDash 1.0 Released

CDash the open-source, web-based software testing server has had its first official release. CDash aggregates, analyzes and displays the results of software testing processes submitted from clients...

VTK 5.2 Released

VTK 5.2 is the first major release of VTK since 5.0 was released in January 2006. This release includes:

• The new Infovis kit for processing and visualizing “information”...

CMake 2.6 Released

CMake 2.6 is the first major release of CMake since 2.4 was released in May 2006. A brief list of the significant new features and bug fixes is provided below. In addition, an article on the CMake ...

ITK 3.6 Released

ITK 3.6 was released on April 15, 2008. The main changes in this release relate to improvements of the image registration framework. In particular, a set of multi-threaded image metric implementati...

Kitware Welcomes New Employees

Kitware welcomes several new employees to the team.

CMake 2.6.0 Released

CMake 2.6.0 was released on May 6, 2008. This is the first major release of CMake in 2 years.  It contains many bug fixes and new features.   A short list of new features are as foll...

CDash Beta Released

Kitware is happy to announce the release of CDash Beta, a new tool in our Quality Software Process chain. CDash is a follow up effort to Dart1 and Dart2. It uses many of the concepts that have been...

CMake 2.4.8 Released

In January 2008, Kitware released CMake 2.4.8. This is expected to be the last CMake release in the 2.4.X branch. 2.4.8 has many bug fixes over 2.4.7. Some highlights are:

Custom Filters

Since the beginning, ParaView 3 has toyed with the idea of user-defined filter packages that could be built on the fly, include pipelines to other filters and be used simply just like ordinary filt...

Improved 2 and 3D Images

ParaView finally supports a mode in which 2D image data is no longer rendered as points, instead we upload the image as a texture and apply it to a quad. This has been extended to 3D images as well...

Kitware Guides Student Project at UNC

Patrick Reynolds and others in Kitware's North Carolina office are guiding a student project for the University of North Carolina's CS 523, a course on software engineering.

Patrick is ...

CFD Co-Processing Project

Co-processing is the term used for the processing of visualization information during the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation run. With most of the top parallel computers having on the or...

Titan Informatics Toolkit Update

The Titan Informatics Toolkit is an information visualization library which began in 2006 through a contract with Sandia National Labs. The toolkit is deployed as a number of new filters and views ...

Multi-block Support in ParaView

One of the major targets for ParaView 3.4 is to support composite datasets natively. As a starting point, Kitware has restructured the composite dataset hierarchy to make it more use-case driven an...

Earth Kit Update

Earth Kit is an open-source geospatial visualization library created through a contract with Sandia National Labs. Earth Kit is part of the new VTK view/representation arc...

StreamingParaView Application Enables Interactive Vis on Large Data

Kitware is working with Los Alamos National Labs on a project that will extend ParaView to enable interactive visualization, even when the data size exceeds the available memory resources. Massive ...

IGSTK 3.0 Released

IGSTK (The Image Guided Surgery Toolkit) developed in collaboration between the ISIS Center at Georgetown University and Kitware released its version 3.0 on February 15. The new release was demonst...

VTK 5.0.4 Patch Release

VTK Patch Release

The VTK 5.0.4 patch release was announced on January 22, 2008. Changes from 5.0.3 to 5.0.4 are listed below. We are planning to create the VTK-5-2 branch in CVS soon in preparation for...

KDE Adopts CMake

CMake, Kitware's open-source software process and build tool, is used throughout the world in a variety of software systems. KDE 4.0, a Linux desktop environment and one of the world's largest open...