From: Kenneth Schwartz (KSSchwartz_at_lbl.gov)
Date: 05/19/2003
Dear NERSC users, This announcement is actually eight combined announcements, done to reduce email. There are three newly installed programs and five updated programs on escher.nersc.gov: 1. ParaView (new) -- Parallel Visualization GUI interface to VTK 2. Grace (new) -- Plotting package. 3. CMake (new) -- Cross-platform Make, used for compilation of programs, particularly VTK. 4. IDL (updated) -- A scientific data analysis system. 5. AVS5 (updated) -- Interactive tool for scientific visualization. 6. Express (updated) -- A data visualization package from AVS, Inc. 7. Rasmol (updated) -- Molecular visualization program. 8. Garlic (updated) -- An open source molecular viewer. NEWLY INSTALLED 1. ParaView, version 0.6, is now available on escher.nersc.gov. To access paraview, use: "module load paraview". Additional information is available at: http://hpcf.nersc.gov/software/apps/visualization/paraview.html Additional online support resources have also been added for this product at: http://vis.lbl.gov/software_support/paraview 2. Grace, version 5.1.4, is now available on escher.nersc.gov. To access grace, use "module load grace". To execute grace, use: "xmgrace". Additional information is available at: http://hpcf.nersc.gov/software/apps/visualization/grace.html Additional online support resources have also been added for this product at: http://vis.lbl.gov/software_support/grace 3. CMake, version 1.6.6, is now available on escher.nersc.gov. To access cmake, use: "module load cmake". Additional information is available at: http://hpcf.nersc.gov/software/apps/visualization/cmake.html Additional online support resources have also been added for this product at: http://vis.lbl.gov/software_support/cmake UPDATED 4. IDL, Version 5.6, is now available on escher.nersc.gov. Version 5.3 is currently in use on Escher as the default. Version 5.5 is also available To access the new version use: "module load idl/5.6". Additional information is available at: http://hpcf.nersc.gov/software/apps/visualization/idl.html Additional online support resources have also been added for this product at: http://vis.lbl.gov/software_support/idl Unless problems are found, version 5.6 will become the default on June 2, 2003. Versions 5.5 and 5.3 will be disabled on June 16, 2003 and deleted soon thereafter. 5. AVS5, version 5.6, is now available on escher.nersc.gov. Version 5.5 is currently in use on Escher as the default. To access avs, use: "module load avs". Additional information is available at: http://hpcf.nersc.gov/software/apps/visualization/avs.html Additional online support resources have also been added for this product at: http://vis.lbl.gov/software_support/avs Unless problems are found, version 5.6 will become the default on June 2, 2003. Versions 5.5 will be disabled on June 16, 2003 and deleted soon thereafter. 6. Express, version 6.2 , is now available on escher.nersc.gov. Version 6.0 is currently in use on Escher as the default. To access the new version use: "module load avs-express/6.2". Additional information is available at: http://hpcf.nersc.gov/software/apps/visualization/express.html Additional online support resources have also been added for this product at: http://vis.lbl.gov/software_support/express Unless problems are found, version 6.2 will become the default on June 2, 2003. The current version, 6.0, will be disabled on June 16, 2003 and deleted soon thereafter. 7. Rasmol, version 2.7.2.1, is now available on escher.nersc.gov. To access rasmol, use: "module load rasmol". The default is for 16 bit displays. To execute use: "rasmol". To explicitly invoke the 8, 16, and 32 bit display versions, use: "rasmol8", "rasmol16", and "rasmol32", respectively. Additional information is available at: http://hpcf.nersc.gov/software/apps/visualization/rasmol.html Additional online support resources have also been added for this product at: http://vis.lbl.gov/software_support/rasmol The previous version, 2.6, was only able to utilize 32 bit displays. This restriction prevented it from working correctly on most remote displays except SGI machines. Effective immediately, version 2.7.2.1 will be the default version to allow users who are not using SGI machines to immediately use RASMOL remotely. The current version, 2.6, will remain available until June 2, 2003, and deleted soon thereafter. To access the older version use: "module load rasmol/2.6". 8. Garlic version 1.3, is now available on escher.nersc.gov. To access the new version use: "module load garlic/1.3". Additional information is available at: http://hpcf.nersc.gov/software/apps/visualization/garlic.html Additional online support resources have also been added for this product at: http://vis.lbl.gov/software_support/garlic The vendor's web site, mentioned in the previous (5/31/2002) announcement, (http://hpcf.nersc.gov/hypermail/server-announcements/0041.html), is not currently accessible. Please refer to the online support resource page for currently available mirror sites. Unless problems are found, version 1.3 will become the default on June 2, 2003. The current version, 1.1, will be disabled on June 16, 2003 and deleted soon thereafter. Regards, Kenneth Schwartz -- Kenneth Schwartz Visualization Project Leader National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division One Clyclotron RD MS 50F Bldg 50 Room 1615 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 Tel 510-486-4851 Fax 510-486-5812 Mobile: 209-612-2790 KSSchwartz_at_lbl_dot_gov http://vis.lbl.gov