Visualizing Non-Spatial Data

Traditional HPC visualization has focused on physical simulation data, e.g., fluid mechanics, geosciences, molecular dynamics, astrophysics, and so on. Tools such as VisIt, ParaView, and IDL support these kinds of data very well. With the recent growth of data science there has been an increased need for visualizing data without inherent spatial coordinates. That is, a spatial organization has to be imposed upon these kinds of data, resulting in what is commonly called information visualization. In this session, we will present an overview of how VisIt, ParaView and other tools available on Blue Waters support information visualization.