OVITO is a scientific visualization and analysis software for atomistic and particle simulation data. It helps scientists gain better insights into materials phenomena and physical processes. It has served in a growing number of computational simulation studies as a powerful tool to analyze, understand and illustrate simulation results.
Licensing Terms and Conditions
OVITO Basic is freely available for all major platforms under an open source license.
Setup
You can see a list of the available versions of the program installed on the machine after loading the gpu module, by typing:
module load daint-gpu
module avail ovito
How to Run on Piz Daint
To run OVITO in interactive mode on a compute node with GPU acceleration, you will need a full OpenGL environment with an X-server. Please follow the instructions provided in the VNC FAQ to allocate a compute node running a VNC server.