PARALLEL VISUAL3 (pV3)

1. Platforms, prices, and company

   • Compaq ALPHA, HP, IBM RS/6000, Silicon Graphics, Linux, Sun, WindowsNT/2000 machines
   • Free
   • MIT, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics: http://raphael.mit.edu/pv3/pv3.html

2. Applications

   • pV3 is a three dimensional, distributed, unsteady, unstructured, CFD visualization software system for supercomputers, parallel machines and clusters of workstations. The software is used for co-processing multi-dimensional visualizations of scalar, vector, and tensor data generated in a distributed and/or parallel computing environment during runtime.

3. Examples/Samples

• Usage: http://manila.mems.rice.edu/developer/tools/pv3
• Application: http://www.msi.umn.edu/tutorial/scicomp/sp/pV3/content_pV3.html

4. Functions

   • Visualization
     • Unsteady data, meshes, and structure computations. Structured and/or unstructured grid-meshes and dynamically adapted grids. Multiple scalar variables and vector fields, passive particle motions, 3-D trajectory, some combinations of the above.
     • 2D cutting planes and 1D line probes. Streamlines, bubble tracers, ribbons and surface tufts.
     • Transformation: Opaque, transparent, and highlight displaying modes .
   • Data Extraction
     • Contains all extraction tools expected of a 3D fluids visualization system: including geometric cuts, iso-surfaces, streamlines, transient particle traces, and programmer defined. The data can be either interactively visualized or stored away for later examination.
   • Debugging
     • Debugging tool for those used to the views created by flow visualization tools for solutions analysis. Allows reintegration and analysis of data dispersed across an array of processors.
   • File formats
     • Postscript, mpeg files. Callable from Fortran and C.

5. Web Resources

• Download: http://raphael.mit.edu/pv3/pv3.html
• Integrated Graphics Systems: http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/graphics-graph-systems.html
• Publication: http://raphael.mit.edu/pv3/reno94.ps