Visual Colloids

Overview

Visual Colloids is a visualisation program used by the department of Chemical Engineering.

There is no version number for this software. It is a 32 bit application.

Restrictions on use

Only users from CEAS may use this software.

Set up procedure

You will need X11 tunnelling enabled on your CSF connection to use this software.

This software is not 100% compatible with the CSF and uses some settings which could cause other sotware to fail. It is therefore recommended that you unload all other applications before using it:

module purge

The to access Visual Colloids

module load apps/binapps/visual_colloids/default

When you have finished either log out of the CSF or do module purge again to clear your environment and then load other software as appropriate.

Running the application

Please do not run Visual Colloids on the login node. A qrsh session to a compute node should be used to run this software, for example:

qrsh -l inter -l short -cwd -V visual_colloids -m orien3D.dat

The following errors/warnings should be ignored:

libGL error: failed to open drm device: No such file or directory
libGL error: failed to load driver: r600

Further info

There is very little documenatation for this sofware. Limited help can be accessed by pressing ? while the software is running.

Updates

None.