Tecplot

General Description

Tecplot is a data visualization package developed explicitly for engineers and scientists.

Home Page: http://www.tecplot.com/products/tecplot/tecplot_main.htm

General Tutorials

• http://www.tecplot.com/support/tutorials/tutorials_main.htm, a great resource complete with links to free trial downloads of the software
• http://www.tecplot.com/showcase/tips/tips_main.htm, a good place to look information regarding formats and inter-application compatibility
• http://www.msi.umn.edu/software/tecplot/tutorial/, from our friends in MN, this tutorial will take you through basic operations and file formats
• http://web.mit.edu/tecplot/www/home.html

Examples and Case Studies

• http://www.tecplot.com/showcase/studies/studies_main.htm, the most widely advertised applications of Tecplot in Industry

Cluster specific use

Prism

• Open an X11 terminal (if you do not use an X windows enabled terminal Tecplot will run in the command-line mode).
• From an SCS managed desktop (e.g., hostname is dskscs***.scs.fsu.edu) type:

qlogin -l tecplot

• From all other machines first log in to pamd.scs.fsu.edu

ssh -Y pamd.scs.fsu.edu

• then type:

qlogin -l tecplot

• This command logs you onto the least loaded prism node
• Type:

 tecplot