Description

From the VAPOR Home Page: VAPOR is the Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers. VAPOR provides an interactive 3D visualization environment that can also produce animations and still frame images. VAPOR runs on most UNIX and Windows systems equipped with modern 3D graphics cards.

The VAPOR Data Collection (VDC) data model allows users progressively access the fidelity of their data, allowing for the visualization of terascale data sets on commodity hardware. VAPOR can also directly import data formats including WRF, MOM, POP, ROMS, and some GRIB and NetCDF files.

Version

• 2.1.0

Authorized Users

• CIRCE account holders
• RRA account holders
• SC account holders

Platforms

• CIRCE cluster
• RRA cluster
• SC cluster

Modules

Vapor requires the following module file to run:

• apps/vapor/2.1.0

• See Modules for more information.

Running Vapor on CIRCE/SC

The Vapor user guide is essential to understanding the application and making the most of it. The guide and this page should help you to get started with your simulations. Please refer to the Documentation section for a link to the guide.

• Note on CIRCE: Make sure to run your jobs from your $WORK directory!
• Note: Scripts are provided as examples only. Your SLURM executables, tools, and options may vary from the example below. For help on submitting jobs to the queue, see our SLURM User’s Guide.

Once connected to CIRCE/SC, you can open VAPOR using the steps below:

[user@login0 ~]$ module add apps/vapor/2.1.0
[user@login0 ~]$ vaporgui

Documentation

Home Page, User Guides, and Manuals

• VAPOR Home Page:
  • https://www.vapor.ucar.edu/
• VAPOR Documentation:
  • https://www.vapor.ucar.edu/docs

More Job Information

See the following for more detailed job submission information:

• SLURM User’s Guide
• Scheduling and Dispatch Policies
• Advanced Submit Techniques

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs with Vapor to the IT Help Desk: rc-help@usf.edu