Artenum is glad to annonce the opening her new site on the Toulouse area, following the reinforcement of her team.
The pole of Toulouse will be dedicated to the space and aeronautics related activites and the Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

In the frame of the Ter@tec 2010 Forum, held on 15 and 16 June on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (Essonne), the first version of Collaviz, the 3D visualization platform, was publicly presented at the workshop about "the new paradigms of scientific visualization".
Gathering more than sixty major industrial actors and research laboratories, the Ter@tec association was founded at the initiative of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), with the aim to be the first European Competitiveness Center in numerical simulation and high performance computing. The key theme of the Ter@tec 2010 Forum was the increase of the uses of supercomputing and intensive computing in the industry and research. The workshops were an opportunity to present the many collaborative projects related to HPC.
We remind that the objective of Collaviz, a project supported by the ANR, is to facilitate the analysis and the visualization of large scientific data by remote multi-experts. As open source, modular and Service Oriented platform, Collaviz intends to be easily extended to tailored applications and should be understood as a natural evolution of the SCOS/V3D project.

Artenum is happy and proud to announce that its collaborator Benoît Thiébault, has been awarded his Doctorate in Physics.
His thesis, "3D Modeling of plasma environments of particles emitted by space probes," , submitted November 25, 2009 to LATMOS at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, was awarded "very honorable" mention – plus congratulations from the entire Artenum team.
The French-Swedish jury was composed of the best European experts in the field of modeling plasma-satellite interactions.

The team, The Frogs go Wildeast have arrived safe and sound in Ulan Bator. With its rear axle severely damaged, the Skoda Felicia would have lived its last moments on the course 500 kilometers from the capital, if it had not been for the ingenuity and spirit of collaborative aid of the local mechanics.

After a breakfast washed down with café au lait in the French restaurant in Ulan Bator, the four team members went to the Ger Village established by the Christina Noble Children's Foundation, with whom they had decided to compete.
This organization has three priorities for its work in Mongolia:
– provide a home to the poorest through its program, Give a ger,
– scare for the most disadvantaged,
– help organize the Ger Villages for the benefit of the children.
In Ulan Bator alone, more than 4000 children live on the street in extremely harsh conditions.

A moving report with many photos on the blog of the Frogs mongolnautes concludes this adventure.

Artenum is pleased to announce her spon­soring to the The Frogs go WildEast team participating to the 2009 edition of the Mongol Rally. The team left Saturday the 18th July 2009 from Milan aboard a customised Skoda Felitia, and should arrive in Ulan Bator late August. The selected north route will pass through Ukraine, Central Asia and Russia.

The Mongol Rally is a charity rally that starts from London, Milan and Madrid to reach the capital of Mongolia, without any help or support.
On board of cars, sometimes old, with less than 1.2-liter engine, the teams choose their own track and cruising speed to reach their destination. Vehicles that arrive at the end of the trip are offered to a NGO that resells them in order to help the local populations. Also, to register to the rally, each team must join a charity association of his choice supporting humanitarian projects in Mongolia.
This year, a total number of 450 vehicles, representing about twenty nations, will participate to this 5th Mongol Rally.

The SCOrWare project is just finished. Funded by ANR, SCORWare had as goal the development of a full implementation of the SCA (Service Component Architecture) specification, as defined by the Open SOA Collaboration, including the FraSCAti runtime, developed by the INRIA Adam team, and numerous related development tools.
In this frame, Artenum has explored in details the possibilities offered by the Service Oriented Approach (SOA) for the modern scientific software systems. Our team has presented a proof-of-concept of 3D scientific data viewer, service oriented, distributed and modular. This demonstrator is based on the dynamical composition of data processing services. This proof of concept has confirmed the relevance of such approach and obtained results have been taken into account into the global effort of the Collaviz project about high performances scientific visualisation.