Visualizing terabytes of data.(Software)(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)(Brief Article)

Visualizing a scientific problem or application can be a daunting task requiring extensive computer processing power and sophisticated algorithms. Visit, a flexible, scalable visualization and graphic analysis tool developed by researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif., allows scientists and engineers to see and interpret the most challenging computational problems involving terabytes of data.

Distributed free of charge, VisIt enables users to process one-, two-, and three-dimensional, time-varying data from computational simulation codes and experiments, from which results can be viewed on a variety of platforms, including UNIX and PC.

The software tool supports three operating modes allowing the analysis of data...

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