OpenDX is a uniquely powerful, full-featured software package for the visualization of scientific, engineering and analytical data: Its open system design is built on a standard interface environment. And its sophisticated data model provides users with great flexibility in creating visualizations.
The official OpenDX home page should be visited to get general information about OpenDX. There are links to a "Getting Started" introduction into OpenDX, a gallery of OpenDX visualization examples, a user and developer discussion forum, FAQs, support contacts, and much more.
OpenDX can be used visualize Cactus output data either written to files or streamed as online data from a running Cactus simulation via socket connections. For details on this please refer to the Cactus OpenDX How-To.
In order to use OpenDX for visualization of Cactus data you need to
For users at the AEI there is an OpenDX distribution already available on all Linux and SGI machines. A dx softlink in the /usr/local/bin/ directory (which should be in your PATH environment variable) points to the OpenDX installation in /usr/local/apps/.
If you want to visualize Cactus data with OpenDX on your laptop but don't want to take the burden of installing a full OpenDX source distribution and building the loadable module file you can simply download an OpenDX tarball for Linux x86. This distribution contains statically linked OpenDX executables with the HDF5 Import modules already integrated. The complete set of OpenDX example networks is included as well as the Tutorial and the Online Documentation. Just unpack the compressed tarball (ca. 38 MBytes) in your installation package directory, set the DXROOT environment variable, and - for convenience - add the path to the dx wrapper script to your PATH environment variable:
This page, the OpenDX installations on machines at AEI, and the Linux binary distribution are maintained by Thomas Radke.