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.

For the CFD survey:

The survey of tools and techniques used within project gave the following main conclusions:

1. Visualisation is most important in analysis; but also useful in problem definition, and mesh generation.
2. ParaView is high on the list of preferred visualisation tools. But gnuplot, Matlab, xmgrace, and Pgplot are also required.

There are strong preferences to version number as features change. This may unify in the future.

Future Roadmap

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