{"id":191,"date":"2013-04-23T08:54:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T08:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2016-10-17T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:11:03","slug":"gnuplot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/software\/applications\/gnuplot\/","title":{"rendered":"gnuplot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>Gnuplot is a command-line driven graphing utility which to allows visualization of mathematical functions and data interactively.<\/p>\n<p>Version 4.2.6 is the default version on the CSF. Version 5.0.5 is also available.<\/p>\n<h2>Restrictions on use<\/h2>\n<p>Gnuplot is free to use software, but users should familiarise themselves with the <a href=\"http:\/\/gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net\/gnuplot\/gnuplot\/Copyright?view=markup\">copyright<\/a> information before using it.<\/p>\n<h2>Set up procedure<\/h2>\n<p>The default version, 4.2.6, is available on the command line without the loading of any modulefile.<\/p>\n<p>To access the more recent 5.0.5 version you must first load the modulefile:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nmodule load apps\/gcc\/gnuplot\/5.0.5\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2>Running the application<\/h2>\n<p>Please do not run gnuplot on the login node.<\/p>\n<h3>Serial batch job submission<\/h3>\n<p>Make sure you have the modulefile loaded, have prepared a file containing what you want gnuplot to do, and then create a batch submission script, for example:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n#!\/bin\/bash\r\n#$ -S \/bin\/bash\r\n#$ -cwd             # Job will run from the current directory\r\n#$ -V               # Job will inherit current environment settings\r\n\r\ngnuplot plot.txt\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Submit the jobscript using: <\/p>\n<pre>qsub <em>scriptname<\/em><\/pre>\n<p>where <em>scriptname<\/em> is the name of your jobscript.<\/p>\n<h3>Interactive Usage<\/h3>\n<p>It is possible to run gnuplot interactively on a compute node using <a href=\"\/csf2\/batch\/sge-interactive-jobs-qrsh\/\">qrsh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To open the gnuplot command line: <code>gnuplot<\/code><\/p>\n<h2>Further info<\/h2>\n<p>Detailed information about how to use gnuplot can be found within the software. At the gnuplot command line type:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>help<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>help <topic> <subtopic><\/code> for example: <code>help plot bezier<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnuplot.info\/\">Gnuplot website<\/a> contains documentation, FAQs, demos and tutorials.<\/li>\n<h2>Updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>During the August 2012 OS upgrade the version available changed from 4.0 to 4.2<\/li>\n<li> 5.0.5 installed October 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Gnuplot is a command-line driven graphing utility which to allows visualization of mathematical functions and data interactively. Version 4.2.6 is the default version on the CSF. Version 5.0.5 is also available. Restrictions on use Gnuplot is free to use software, but users should familiarise themselves with the copyright information before using it. Set up procedure The default version, 4.2.6, is available on the command line without the loading of any modulefile. To access the.. <a href=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/software\/applications\/gnuplot\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions\/3362"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf-apps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}