Paraview

[ParaView] "is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView’s batch processing capabilities.

ParaView was developed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. It can be run on supercomputers to analyze datasets of petascale size as well as on laptops for smaller data, has become an integral tool in many national laboratories, universities and industry, and has won several awards related to high performance computation."

Type of Data

Will accept multiple data types

Size of Data Set

Respondents have processed data sets of up to a few TB

Advantages

• Good performance
• Free

Quality of Documentation/Tutorials

Good/Excellent documentation

Range of Data Formats

"the major formats can be read"

Level of Support Available

Good support is available.Tutorials and a user guide are available on the website. The developers also host a mailing list.

Performance

Performance is good, provided that sufficient memory is available for the data set - it can be run over multiple nodes to provide this.

Limitations

Remote connections with X system is slow.

Comments

The comments only reitereted points made previously: it is free and open source