VisIt is an Open Source, interactive, scalable, visualization, animation and analysis tool for visualizing data defined on two- and three-dimensional structured and unstructured meshes.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
The following versions of VisIt are available on OSC systems:
| Version | Pitzer | Ascend | Cardinal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.14 | X* | ||
| 3.3.3 | X | ||
| 3.4.2 | X |
You can use module spider visit to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.
Access
VisIt is available to all OSC users. If you have any questions, please contact OSC Help.
Publisher/Vendor/Repository and License Type
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, BSD-3 License
Usage
Set-up
We recomend users to run VisIt locally and connect to OSC clusters for data analysis. In this Client-Server Mode, users can visualize data stored on the clusters without download it.
Install VisIt locally
Downloadand install a binary distribution locally. The supported versions on OSC clusters are listed above. If you are using an unmatched version, there might be a compatibility issue. During the installation, you will be asked to pick a host profile from a list of computing centers. Please select Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) network to continue. If you are using any version prior to 3.2.2, the existing OSC profile is outdated and is not compatible with the current batch scheduler. Please refer to the following section to obtain the up-to-date profiles.
Update host profiles (for version prior to 3.2.2)
Please download the new OSC profiles for Pitzer and place them in $HOME/.visit/hosts if you are using macOS or Linux, or in <visit_installaion>\hostsAfter relaunching VisIt, you should see new profiles named OSC Pitzer.
