The visualization tool, pV3-Gold, can be used during and after a computer simulation to extract and visualize the physical features contained within the results of computer simulations. Description The pV3-Gold, an extension of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology s pV3 visualization environment, is one of the tools being developed as part of the Affordable High Performance Computing Project. The pV3 visualization environment is designed for co-processing multidimensional visualizations of scalar, vector, and tensor data generated in a distributed computing network. It is designed to allow the numerical solver to run as independently as possible. If the numerical procedure takes days to reach a solution, pV3 can periodically connect to the simulation, allow viewing of the data as they change, and then disconnect.
Programming is required to merge the visualization with the numerical solver.
All that is required of the programmer is knowledge of the data. If the data are distributed in a cluster of machines, pV3 deals with this, so there are few complications for the user. The pV3-Gold visualization environment maintains all the original functions of pV3. New functions incorporated into pV3-Gold include annotation, animation recording, and feature extraction. Full support for structured and unstructured meshes.