ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. ParaView was developed to support distributed computational models for processing large data sets and to create an open, flexible user interface.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
ParaView is available on Owens and Pitzer Clusters. The versions currently available at OSC are:
| Version | Owens | Pitzer | Cardinal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4.0 | X | ||
| 5.3.0 | X | ||
| 5.5.2 | X | X | |
| 5.8.0 | X* | X* | |
| 5.12.1 | X | X | |
| 5.13.0 | X |
You can use module spider paraview to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.
Access
ParaView is available for use by all OSC users.
Publisher/Vendor/Repository and License Type
https://www.paraview.org, Open source
Usage
Usage on Owens
Set-up
module load paraview. To select a particular software version, use module load paraview/version. For example, use module load paraview/4.4.0 to load ParaView version 4.4.0. Following a successful loading of the ParaView module, you can access the ParaView program:
paraview
Usage on Pitzer
Set-up
module load paraview. Following a successful loading of the ParaView module, you can access the ParaView program:
paraview
Using ParaView with OSC OnDemand
Using ParaView with OSC OnDemand requires VirtualGL. To begin, connect to OSC OnDemand and luanch a virtual desktop, either a Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) or an Interactive HPC desktop. In the desktop open a terminal and load the ParaView and VirtualGL modules with module load paraview and module load virtualgl. You can then access the ParaView program with:
vglrun paraview
Note that using ParaView with OSC OnDemand does not work on all clusters.
