Instructor: Alex Razoumov (WestGrid)
Title: Large-scale remote visualization with ParaView
Abstract: ParaView is an open source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization tool designed to run on a variety of hardware from an individual laptop to large supercomputers. With ParaView users can interactively visualize 2- and 3-dimensional data defined on structured, adaptive and unstructured meshes or particles, animate these datasets in time, and manipulate them with a variety of filters. ParaView supports both interactive (GUI) and scripted (including offscreen) visualization, and is an easy and fun tool to learn.
Target audience: anyone interested in 3D scientific visualization
Course plan:
- more on animation
- scripting
- remote and parallel visualization
Duration: 3 hours
Level: intermediate
Prerequisites: Some basic knowledge of ParaView materials covered in the introductory visualization course in the morning. Attendees should bring their laptops with the latest version of ParaView installed from http://www.paraview.org/download. No prior visualization experience is required. We will provide sample data and codes for many interactive hands-on exercises, and you can bring your dataset if you would like to visualize it with ParaView.
Setup:
- Cluster reservation: 200 cores
- Laptop software: ParaView 5.3 (that specific version to match the cluster version) installed from https://www.paraview.org, SSH client (built-in on Mac/Linux, on Windows MobaXTerm or PuTTY)