Gsharp at NERSC
Table of Contents
- Description
- Gsharp is an interactive 2D/3D plotting tool that helps you create, automate, and publish graphs. Gsharp can be operated both through its interactive GUI using point-and-click operations, and it can be programmed using the Gsharp Script Language - GSL. The current default version of Gsharp is 3.3l.
- Features
- More information can be found at the vendor's vendor's web site.
- Accessing Gsharp
- Gsharp is available on several NERSC platforms via the modules facility.
- Documentation
- Links to online local documentation (html format).
- Additional Resources
- Links to the Gsharp distribution site, User Forums, USENET groups, supplemental information, a FAQ page, emacs modes etc.
- Examples
- Sample Screen Shots
Description
Gsharp is a commercial plotting application, and is installed on installed on SEABORG and ESCHER.
Features
- Gsharp's intelligent user interface, automatic scripting and broad import capabilities let you automate the process of working with ASCII, binary and SQL data from a variety of file formats and sources.
- Gsharp provides hundreds of plot types, interpolation and control, an extensive function library, batch-mode graphics production and the ability to create multiple graphs and axes from a single plot.
- Point and click to build your graphic: Create and modify your graphs easily using toolbars, custom widgets, popup wizards, and hypertext help. Click directly within a graph to move, re-size, or rotate graphical objects; probe and edit data values; copy and delete object hierarchies with simple drag-and-drop actions.
- Auto-generate a command script for reuse and modification: Design your graph interactively, then let Gsharp generate the corresponding command script. Use the script to reproduce your graph or as the starting point for further development; add variable substitution and flow control to turn command scripts into reusable macros and graphics applications.
- Run your script in batch mode: Once you've created a graph and generated its script, run reports with a single command without even launching Gsharp. For example, you could automate the production of hundreds of graphs overnight for display on your corporate intranet the next day.
- Provide Web-based graphs on demand: By adding a simple HTML form interface to your graph template, you can let visitors to your site input their own selection of data and other graphing parameters to produce custom publication-quality graphs within seconds. Your graph templates can even include database queries and access URL addresses dynamically using Gsharp's built-in Oracle and ODBC SQL interfaces.
- Produce superior hardcopy output: Output your graphs as scalable, high-resolution hardcopy and metafiles. Gsharp generates outstanding hardcopy by converting the data display to graphics primitives that drive the output device at its maximum resolution and plotting performance. Hardcopy drivers are available for every plotter architecture, including laser, thermal, electrostatic, penplotter and film recorders.
Accessing Gsharp
- For NERSC machines (Seaborg) do:
module load Gsharp
- Gsharp has a rich set of examples. To try them out after starting up Gsharp: select examples from the pulldown menus.
- For help:
- On Seaborg, selecting help from the pulldown menus will display a message in the command window pointing to our online documentation.
- A great deal of source code, sample datasets and application code for Gsharp is supplied in various directories under $UNIDIR. Appplication code may be loaded into Gsharp or viewed in a text editor.
Documentation
HTML Documentation
Examples
- (under construction)
Emacs Modes For Gsharp (Unsupported Downloads)
Local Documentation Downloads: (Use shift left-mouse to download files)
Local Tutorials for Downloads: (Use shift left-mouse to download files)
- (under construction)
Additional Resources
- Graphics/Visualization software support at LBNL & NERSC.
- AVS Homepage.
- International AVS Center.
- Online moderated vendor forum for AVS' products including Gsharp. Requires sign on, Open to all users.
Examples
- (under construction).
Sample Screen Shots
 |