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Next Thursday, April 25th, Kitware will participate in the 3rd Annual Open Source Festival at the State University of New York at Albany. The event is hosted by the University’s Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), and will run from 11 AM – 8 PM in the Assembly Hall at the SUNY Albany Campus […]

The  benefits of distributed version control systems, such as Git, often stem from complete, local storage of a repository’s history; however, such local storage is not without disadvantages. One problem is the addition of large files into a repository. Even if large files are removed from HEAD, their presence in the history increases storage requirements […]

These days, everyone’s got a mobile device (or several), so why not use them for data visualization? Last month, KiwiViewer 2.0 for iOS was released in the App Store as a free download. KiwiViewer 2.0 is a major upgrade over the previous version. It ships with a newly designed user interface and heaps of exciting […]

National Cancer Informatics Program Open Development Initiative Kitware is collaborating with SAIC-Frederick, Inc. (SAIC-F) to migrate a collection of National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored software projects to an open-source environment in Github. Kitware will play an advisory role in this project and provide NCI and SAIC-F personnel with knowledge, tools, and skills for successfully managing the […]

Kitware and the Insight Development team have released SimpleITK version 0.6.1. The binaries for this release are available for download from Sourceforge and the SimpleITK website (simpleitk.org). Notable improvements in this release include basic support for transformations, interpolator support in the Resample and other filters, over 250 ImageFilters wrapped, binary filter support for comparative operators, […]

We are pleased to announce the first beta release of the Open Chemistry suite of cross platform, open-source, BSD-licensed tools and libraries – Avogadro 2, MoleQueue and MongoChem. They are being released in beta, before all planned features are complete, to get feedback from the community following the open-source mantra of “release early, release often”. […]

Kitware and the Insight Development team are pleased to announce the release of SimpleITK 0.6.1! The binaries for this release are available for download from Sourceforge and the SimpleITK website. Notable improvements in this release include basic support for transformations; interpolator support in the Resample and other filters; over 250 ImageFilters wrapped; binary filter support […]

There are many reasons why Open Science is a good thing. For some it’s a moral argument that stresses sharing the results of (usually publicly funded) scientific research with society, preventing fraud through transparency, and benefiting teaching through the use of open materials. Others see the growing complexity and challenges of science as demanding collaboration; so […]

Kitware, in collaboration with The  Ohio State University, recently completed a Phase I small business grant awarded by the Department of Energy entitled “Cloud Computing and Visualization Tools for KBase”. This grant involved extending our tool-sets and exploring activities in the areas of bioinformatics and researcher support. As part of a gap analysis and to broaden our […]

Last week we visited the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI laboratory) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  LOCI is a leader in open source image analysis tools for microscopy and the life sciences.  In the past, there has been limited cross-pollination between the ITK and ImageJ communities, possibly because a difference in primary programming […]

Kitware Europe Celebrates 2nd AnniversaryNovember 8th marked the second anniversary of Kitware Europe in Lyon, France. Since its inception, the Lyon office has been actively providing professional training courses throughout Europe. They’ve also made important collaborations with organizations such as the French Nuclear Agency (CEA) to develop new tools for VTK and ParaView, and with […]

The ParaView team  has released version 3.98, the final major release in the 3 series. These notes give a summary of the major changes in this release, which address more than 300 issues. Exporting to PS/PDF: One of the most requested features on ParaView User Voice[1] was for support for vector graphics. It is now […]

The Linux Foundation released its annual report on “Who Writes Linux” in April of this year. It reveals interesting facts about how such a large-scale open-source community operates. Some of the Linux Kernel facts that jump out of the report include: Releases are done every 80 days on average. Every release includes an average of […]

One of the goals of the Open Chemistry project [1,2] at Kitware is to provide a simple, easy-to-use interface for submitting chemical simulations to be executed on high-performance computing (HPC) resources. To this end, we have developed MoleQueue — a system-tray resident server application that uses standard inter-process communication channels to interact with programs that […]

Previous Infrastructure In the context of multi-threading, image processing is often considered an “embarrassing parallel” problem.  That is, since the operations to create one output pixel are often independent from other output pixels, data-parallelism can be achieved when output pixels are partitioned into sub-domains to be processed in each thread. Infrastructure to easily write multi-threaded […]

With funding from the NIH via the Neuroimaging Analysis Center (NAC) and the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), Kitware has been collaborating on the refactoring and enhancement of 3D Slicer.  Slicer is a tool for visualizing and quantifying medical images and related biomedical data.  It provides advanced visualization, segmentation (e.g., boundary delineation), and […]

CMake: Building with all your cores As a distance runner, it is important to run using a fully engaged core. This allows for the most efficient means of moving towards my running goals. Software developers are equally motivated to use as much of their “cores” as possible to build software. OK, I admit this is […]

Kitware and the ParaView team are happy to announce the release of ParaView 3.98.0, the final major release in the 3 series. This release addresses more than 300 issues, and features include modularization, improved co-processing support through Catalyst, and new data formats available for export. VTK was restructured to use a modularized approach for building […]