Free light 1.0 natural light simulation software for linux

GENESIS (short for GEneral NEural SImulation System) is a general purpose simulation platform that was developed to support the simulation of neural systems ranging from subcellular components and biochemical reactions to complex models of single neurons, simulations of large networks, and systems-level models.

GENESIS has provided the basis for laboratory courses in neural simulation at Caltech, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Crete, Trieste, Bangalore, and Obidos short courses in Computational Neuroscience, and at least 49 universities of which we are aware.

Most current GENESIS applications involve realistic simulations of biological neural systems. Although the software can also model more abstract networks, other simulators are more suitable for backpropagation and similar connectionist modeling.

Installation

1. Pick the place where you want to install the "genesis" directory tree. If you are making a system-wide installation as "root" user, /usr/local is a good choice. For a personal installation, without root privileges, you can use your home directory ("~"). Change to this directory and extract the genesis directory from the archive file genesis2.2.1-linux-bin.tar.gz. For example,

cd /usr/local
tar xvzf /mnt/cdrom/genesis2.2.1-linux-bin.tar.gz

or from wherever you have it (e.g.~/downloads/genesis2.2.1-linux-bin.tar.gz).

2. Change to the "genesis" directory and run the setup script that creates the ".simrc" GENESIS initialization file". Then copy .simrc to your home directory.

cd genesis
./binsetup
cp .simrc ~

3. Finallly, add the genesis directory to your search path, so that "genesis" can be found from any directory that you are in. If your login shell is bash, you can do this by editing the .bashrc file in your home directory to add the line

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/genesis

at the end of the file. If you are using tcsh or csh as your command shell, add

set path=($path /usr/local/genesis)

to your .tcsh or .csh file.

At this point, you are ready to try running GENESIS. Change into the directory genesis/Scripts and try some of the tutorials suggested in the README file.

The Noble Ape Simulation has been developed (as the Nervana Simulation) since 1996 and is a biological simulation software. The aim of the simulation is to create a detailed biological environment and a cognitive simulation.
The Simulation is intended as a palette for open source cross-platform development. It provides a stable means of simulating large-scale environments and cognitive processes on Windows, Mac and Linux.
The Simulation includes a detailed scripting language for user-implemented movement and cognitive-process development.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a bug in displaying only the seen Noble Apes, and has code simplification towards OpenGL implementation.

Mars Simulation Project is a free software Java project to create a simulation of future human settlement of Mars.
The simulation is a multi-agent artificial society set in a detailed virtual world.
XML configuration files allow the user to modify the simulation properties.
The Mars Simulation Projects main window contains the following components:
- Menu Bar
- Search Tool
- Time Tool
- Mars Navigator
- Monitor Tool
- Rover Info Window
- Settlement Info Window
- Person Info Window
- Unit Bar
The Mars Simulation Project can be configured with a number of XML configuration files located in the "conf/" directory. It is recommended that you save a backup copy of a configuration file before modifying it in case there is an error and the simulation cannot read the modified configuration file.
Here are the configuration files you can modify for the simulation. You will need to start a new simulation for any changes to be loaded in.
- buildings.xml
- crops.xml
- landmarks.xml
- malfunctions.xml
- medical.xml
- people.xml
- settlements.xml
- simulation.xml
- vehicles.xml
Enhancements:
- This release includes the new mission tool for viewing, creating, and editing missions as well as plenty of bugfixes.

Multi-Simulator Interface, in shrot MSI, is a simulation interconnection engine. In other words it is a program that connects simulations together by synchronizing their clocks and data. Multi-Simulation Interface serves the same purpose as HLA and supports most of HLAs functionality (and more).
The MSI is an HLA alternative. The major motivating factors in the design of the MSI are speed, interoperability, and ease of use.
The MSI was written as a cutting edge distributed simulation component to connect multiple instances of ATLs premiere simulation software, CSIM, and it can be used to interface any compatible simulations.
How does the MSI compare to HLA?
The MSI was originally created to be just a light weight HLA RTI. However, as it was written, limitations in HLA were discovered. The MSI is an improvement on both the design and implementation of HLA. Some highlights include:
A 1,536 to 1 reduction in size over the publicly available (until late 2002) HLA RTI.
At least one order of magnitude of bandwidth consumption less than the publicly available (until late 2002) HLA RTI.
The ability to subscribe to an object name in addition to a type.
Time synchronization that allows for proper causality when used with discrete event simulators.
Support for systems-of-systems (SoS) and hierarchically organized simulations.
Availability for many platforms.
MSI Concept - A Synchronized Data Broker
The concept behind MSI is the synchronized data broker. There are many connected software systems that posses state data that changes over the life of that system. In the case where these systems need to exchange this changing data with other systems and the other systems will exhibit the effects of this data on their own state, the synchronization of this data may need to be managed.
Historically the management of this data has been as simple as tagging it with the time of its release. If there is any conflict in the data the most recent version of the data is used. If the data is late an extrapolation can potentially be used. In SQL relational databases transactions and locking are used to ensure data integrity. Most data brokering services offer little or no sychronization, only delivery.
MSI Setup and Use
The MSI uses a XML stream through a direct socket connection for communications. This enables the MSI to be used from any programming language that can use sockets (C, C++, Java, Ada, Lisp, Perl, etc.). Also, the MSI was written with cross-platform libraries that make it portable to all the major OS platforms (Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, IRIX, HPUX, etc.).
The MSI is a single executable file and is distributed with example code for the simulator/federate side interface.
MSI Time Synchronization
The MSI time synchronizer can mix unconstrained with time constrained simulations. Each constrained simulation reports the time of the next event that will occur in that simulation/federate. This time may be artificially inflated to cause loose synchronization (less overhead but less guarantee of accuracy). The simulations/federates will advance to the announced time.
MSI Data Synchronization
The MSI implements a publish/subscribe data broker. The MSI is presently not validating, therefore it does not require a separate data format specification (like the HLA FOM). When data format validation is implemented, it will be an optional feature and not written in Lisp. This greatly reduces MSIs setup time. Also, not being locked to a predetermined data format allows for dynamic data types.
There are five commands associated with the MSI data broker: publish, subscribe, update, unsubscribe, destroy (destroy is not implemented yet). Simulations/federates may subscribe to object names in addition to object types. This allows simulations to subscribe to specific objects of a type without needing to receive updates of all objects of that type. The update command is both an incoming and outgoing command. When a simulation/federate receives an update command, it is expected to reflect the new values of that object.
The MSI has a very flexible publish and subscribe system. A federate may subscribe to an object type or an object name. In addition a federate may specify particular attributes of an object or object type. For example, if an object has attributes name, x, y, and z, a federate that only considers two dimensions may choose to subscribe only to name, x, and y.
The MSI also supports systems of systems and object hierarchy in simulations. A publishing federate may designate a parent object. Subscribers may then subscribe to the objects children.
MSI Messaging
The MSI allows simulations/federates to send messages (interactions in HLA) to each other. These messages can contain multiple attributes and be multicast to a specific group of simulations.
Recently Added Features
Removed external library dependencies to improve the portability and fragility of the MSI.
Added a better client library.
Improved documentation.
Enhancements:
- An XML parsing bug in the utilities library was fixed.
- The socket library was enhanced with more protocols, Win32 tricks, and the ability to key off of addresses as well as names.
- The --wait-for command line argument was added.
- Several internal bugs were fixed.
- More of the client library and the CSIM interface were flushed out.
- All standard functionality was tested.

ACT-RBOT + MRS is a cognitive agent-based social simulation toolkit (RBOT+MRS) and production system based on ACT-R for modelling single actor cognitive experiments (RBOT) and multiple actors in a simulated (semiotic) world (RBOT + MRS).

Simple utility that turns your monitor into a configurable strobe light.

Source code is included alongside the executable "strobelight" in the archive.

Light is yet another Mozilla-based browser. Features very simple non-bloated GTK+ interface, familiar Netscape 4.x keyboard shortcuts, context menus, etc. Tested with Mozilla 0.9.6 and newer. Supports Java/SSL/downloads/queue downloads to an external download manager.

The goal of this project is to have a usable, fast browser for reading news, searching bugzilla, etc. There are no binary packages, and I do not plan to provide them anytime soon. Compiling Light from source requires Mozilla 0.9.6+ and Mozilla headers.

Carefully read README and INSTALL, and read manual.html in the doc/ directory for explanation of how things are done and why. may work but this is unsupported. Bug reports are welcome, but requests to implement a Cookie Editor are not.

Hogwash Light BR is an Intrusion Prevention System that can filter packets directly in the layer 2 of the OSI model (so the machine doesnt need even an IP address).
Detection of malicious/anomalous traffic is done by rules based in signatures, and the user can add more rules. It is an efficient and versatile IPS, and it can even be used as bridge to honeypots and honeynets.
Since it doesnt make use of the operating systems TCP/IP stack, it can be "invisible" to network access and attackers.
Enhancements:
- New rules were added.