ReportAndRecommendations

Summary list of Survey Executive Summaries:

For the global CCP survey:

• Three packages are the most-used packages by 26% of respondents. Conversely, another 31 packages are used by one or two users and account for a further 26% of respondents.
• Producing publication quality plots is the most-used technique.
• However, the features making these packages the favourites are:

1. Software that is written specifically for their domain of interest.
2. Large datasets are handled efficiently.
3. Scripting or other ability to extend the tool is required.

• Users second most favoured packages are general purpose visualisation tools.
• Users were given five options for selecting their most required development. None emerged as being more needed than the others.
• Conversely, large amounts of memory was clearly the most important requirement for high performance visualisation.
• The main future challenges are suggested to be

1. The ability to handle large amounts of data
2. The ability to operate in a distributed environment.