What is "castalia"

Castalia (; ), in Greek mythology, was a nymph whom Apollo transformed into a fountain at Delphi, at the base of Mount Parnassos, or at Mount Helicon. Castalia could inspire the genius of poetry to those who drank her waters or listened to their quiet sound; the sacred water was also used to clean the Delphian temples. Apollo consecrated Castalia to the Muses (Castaliae Musae).

The 20th century German writer Hermann Hesse used Castalia as inspiration for the name of the futuristic fictional utopia in his 1943 magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game. Castalia is home to an austere order of intellectuals with a twofold mission: to run boarding schools for boys, and to nurture and play the Glass Bead Game.

Castalia is the name of a nymph in Greek and Roman mythology.

Castalia or Kastalia may also refer to:

• Castalia, Iowa, United States
• Castalia, Ohio, United States, a village in Erie County
• Castalia, North Carolina, United States, a town in Nash County
• Castalia, Grand Manan Island, Canada, part of the Village of Grand Manan

• 4769 Castalia (previously known as '1989 PB'), a near-Earth asteroid discovered by Eleanor Helin in 1989; the first asteroid to be directly imaged
• 646 Kastalia, a Main Belt asteroid discovered by August Kopff in 1907
• The Castalia meteorite of 1874, which fell in North Carolina, United States (see meteorite falls)

• Castalia is a fictional province in Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game.

• Castalia is an instrumental track in the 1979 album Solid State Survivor by Yellow Magic Orchestra.
• Castalia (album), a Mark Isham album.

• Castalia House, a book publishing company founded by writer Vox Day.

• Castalia (simulator)

• , an experimental cross-Channel ferry which was later converted to a hospital ship.

Castalia (1988) is an album by the American trumpeter/ synthesist Mark Isham. The title refers to the mythical spring Castalia on Mount Parnassus in Greece.

This album features a larger ensemble of musicians than Isham's previous albums. Artists who performed on this album include guitarists David Torn and Peter Maunu, bassist Patrick O'Hearn, drummer Terry Bozzio and vocalist Gayle Moran. O'Hearn, Bozzio and Maunu were all in Isham's early band Group 87. Torn's atmospheric guitar work and O'Hearn's bass playing make a major contribution to the unique style of this album. Most of the pieces are in a long format, often beginning with subtle ambient textures and bursting into more active compositions. The song "In the Warmth of Your Night" is only available on CD and was available on Cassette.

The album's cover artwork features illustrations of the Lissajous apparatus.

Castalia is a simulator for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Body Area Networks and generally networks of low-power embedded devices. It is based on the OMNeT++ platform and used by researchers and developers to test their distributed algorithms and/or protocols in a realistic wireless channel and radio model, with a realistic node behaviour especially relating to access of the radio. Castalia uses the lognormal shadowing model as one of the ways to model average path loss, which has been shown to explain empirical data in WSN. It also models temporal variation of path loss in an effort to capture fading phenomena in changing environments (i.e., the nodes or parts of the environment are moving). Castalia's temporal variation modeling is designed to be fitted to measured data instead of making specific assumptions on the creation of fast fading. Other features of Castalia include: physical process modeling, sensing device bias and noise, node clock drift, and several MAC and routing protocols implemented.

Castalia is developed at the National ICT Australia since 2006. Since 2007 it is made public as an open source project under the Academic Public License. The current release version is 3.3.