Visual Colloids is a visualisation program used by the department of Chemical Engineering.<\/p>\n
There is no version number for this software. It is a 32 bit application. Because we don’t want to support old 32 bit libraries on CSF3 we are now running Visual Colloids within a Singularity<\/a> container.<\/p>\n Only users from CEAS may use this software.<\/p>\n You will need X11 tunnelling enabled on your CSF connection to use this software.<\/p>\n To access Visual Colloids<\/p>\n When you have finished either log out of the CSF or do To run the software you should type:<\/p>\n replacing If you generate screenshots from within Visual Colloids they will always be written as png files in your home directory rather than the current directory.<\/p>\n There is very little documentation for this software. Limited help can be accessed by pressing None.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. Because we don’t want to support old 32 bit libraries on CSF3 we are now running Visual Colloids within a Singularity container. 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.. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2947","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2947\/revisions\/2955"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Restrictions on use<\/h2>\n
Set up procedure<\/h2>\n
module load apps\/binapps\/visual_colloids\/default\r\n<\/pre>\n
module purge<\/code> again to clear your environment and then load other software as appropriate.<\/p>\nRunning the application<\/h2>\n
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visual_colloids -m file.dat<\/code><\/pre>\nfile.dat<\/code> with the name of the file you wish to visualise. You should type this on the login node, note however, in the background this will spawn a job on one of the interactive nodes. It is possible that the interactive nodes will be too busy to immediately schedule your job.
\nThe following errors\/warnings should be ignored:<\/p>\nlibGL error: failed to open drm device: No such file or directory\r\nlibGL error: failed to load driver: r600\r\n<\/pre>\n
Known Issues<\/h2>\n
Further info<\/h2>\n
?<\/code> while the software is running.<\/p>\nUpdates<\/h2>\n