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Visualization Applications and Graphics Libraries
The following table lists and briefly describes visualization applications and graphics libraries installed on NERSC systems. Links to NERSC systems are available from the High Performance Computing Resources page. Each NERSC System page has a link to the software installed on that system.
Note that different versions of an application may be installed on the same system or on different systems. For complete platform and version information, see the NERSC resource pages for visualization applications and graphics libraries. These pages also indicate whether you will need to load the application using the module command. If you have questions about the applications listed below, please send email to consult@nersc.gov.
| Application | Platforms | Description | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| avs | davinci | Advanced Visual Systems (AVS) is an interactive tool for scientific visualization. | NERSC; Vendor |
| avs-express | davinci | Express is a Rapid Application Development environment for visualizing complex data and for building applications with interactive visualization and graphics functions which runs under X Windows. | NERSC; Vendor |
| ensight | davinci | EnSight is software used for analyzing, visualizing and communicating high-end scientific and engineering datasets that can take full advantage of the parallel-processing machines. | NERSC; Vendor |
| ferret | davinci, franklin | Ferret is an interactive computer visualization and analysis environment designed to meet the needs of oceanographers and meteorologists analyzing large and complex gridded data sets. | NERSC; Vendor |
| ghostview | bassi, jacquard | Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language. | NERSC; Vendor |
| gimp | davinci | GNU Image Manipulation Program | NERSC; Vendor |
| gnuplot | bassi, davinci, franklin, jacquard | gnuplot is a plotting program for 2d and 3d data. | NERSC; Vendor |
| grace | bassi, davinci, jacquard | Grace - WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool | NERSC; Vendor |
| grads | davinci | The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. | Vendor |
| idl | bassi, davinci, franklin, hopper, jacquard | IDL is a complete computing environment for the interactive analysis and visualization of data. | NERSC; Vendor |
| ImageJ | davinci, jacquard | ImageJ is an open source image processing and analysis package written in Java. ImageJ may be used as an image processing toolkit (class library) to develop applications. ImageJ may be extended by developing plugins using ImageJ's built in text editor and Java compiler. More than 500 plugins are available from the ImageJ Website. | NERSC; Vendor |
| imagemagick | davinci, jacquard | IMageMagick - Interactive display and image manipulation tools | NERSC; Vendor |
| ncar | bassi, davinci, franklin, jacquard | NCAR Graphics Library | NERSC; Vendor |
| paraview | davinci | Parallel Visualisation GUI interface to VTK (serial version) | NERSC; Vendor |
| paraview_mpi | davinci | Parallel Visualisation GUI interface to VTK (parallel version) | NERSC; Vendor |
| pgplot | bassi, jacquard | Vendor | |
| rasmol | davinci | RasMol is a molecular graphics program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. | NERSC; Vendor |
| tecplot | davinci | Tecplot is a CFD visualization and analysis tool. | NERSC; Vendor |
| visit | davinci, franklin | VisIt is an open-source, multi-platform visualization application. It supports distributed computation models to process large data sets. | NERSC; Vendor |
| vmd | davinci, jacquard | VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. | NERSC; Vendor |
