AVS-Express

Description

AVS-Express is a comprehensive and versatile data visualization tool for both nonprogrammers and experienced developers. AVS-Express provides rapid data analysis and rich visualization techniques combined with an intuitive, graphical application-development environment.

AVS-Express provides powerful visualization methods for challenging problems in a vast range of fields, including science, business, engineering, medicine, telecommunications, and environmental research.

The NCCS has purchased a site license for AVS-Express Developer Edition. The current license key supports up to eight seats.

For more information please, see the AVS-Express web page.

Use

AVS-Express can be installed on personal machines or used from NCCS resources such as the Hawk cluster. Regardless of the host, several configuration requirements must be met. If you plan to use AVS-Express on a personal machine, please refer to this location in the future to link to the ORNL AVS-Express personal installation page.


Hawk
Log onto Hawk with X11 tunneling through SSH.

localhost> ssh -X hawk

The environment state for AVS-Express is easily set through the module command.

hawk> module load AVS-Express

Once this is done, you simply run express on a single Hawk node.

hawk> srun -A express

Note: The -A switch on the srun command is necessary to enable forwarding of the authentication agent connection from hawk0 to the specific hawk node running the AVS-Express client via Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM).