Picture Perfect with visltc

摘要

Complex simulations running on today's supercomputers can generate enormous data sets that contain trillions of bytes. To better understand these results, scientists and engineers often use visualization software to create pictures of the data that are far easier to interpret than reams of numbers. Problems that run for days or weeks on the world's most powerful supercomputers can now be visualized or analyzed in seconds using Visit—a flexible visualization and analysis tool developed at Livermore. One of Visit's strengths is that it has a scalable architecture, allowing it to process some of the biggest data sets ever generated. It also has a plug-in architecture, so additional capabilities can be easily added. Visit is free as well, available as open-source software.