What is VAPOR, and how can I download it for use on the TeraGrid?

Note: After ten years of service to the national science and engineering community, the TeraGrid project has ended. It is succeeded by a new National Science Foundation (NSF) program, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). You should move any data stored on TeraGrid systems to an alternate storage resource. If you have leftover service units on your TeraGrid allocation, or if your research requires further use of high performance computational, visualization, storage, and network resources, consider applying for an allocation on one or more XSEDE digital services.

The Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers (VAPOR) provides a visual data discovery environment tailored toward the specialized needs of the geosciences computational fluid dynamics (CFD) community.

VAPOR provides:

• A desktop solution capable of handling terascale size data sets
  
  
• Advanced interactive 3D visualization tightly coupled with quantitative data analysis
  
  
• Support for multi-variate, time-varying data
  
  
• Close coupling with RSI's powerful interpretive data language, IDL.
  
  
• Support for 3D visualization of WRF-ARW datasets

VAPOR development is led by the Scientific Computing Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in collaboration with University of California-Davis and Ohio State University. Support for VAPOR is provided by the US National Science Foundation via an NSF Information Technology Research grant.

VAPOR runs on most Unix and Windows systems equipped with modern 3D graphics cards. For more, see NCAR's Getting Started with VAPOR.

This document was developed with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0503697 to the University of Chicago and subcontracted to Indiana University. Additional support was provided by IU through its participation in the TeraGrid, which is supported by the NSF under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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