Virtual Marine Arsenal

ParaView is an application for visualizing two and three dimensional data sets. The platforms supported by ParaView range from single-processor workstations to multiple-processor distributed-memory supercomputers or workstation clusters.

Using a parallel machine, ParaView can process very large data sets in parallel and later collect the results. The size of the data sets ParaView can handle varies widely depending on the architecture on which the application is run.

The ParaView project started in 2000 as a collaborative effort between Kitware Inc. and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The initial funding was provided by a three-year contract with the US Department of Energy ASCI Views program. The first public release, ParaView 0.6, was announced in October 2002.

It has been successfully deployed on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SGI, IBM Blue Gene, Cray and various Unix workstations, clusters and supercomputers. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using Qt.

Image.1) A Paraview rendering of free surface for Type 214 class submarine sailing at periscope depth...