VTK

Overview

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is open source software for manipulating and displaying scientific data. It comes with state-of-the-art tools for 3D rendering, a suite of widgets for 3D interaction, and extensive 2D plotting capability.

Using

Use the module name vtk to discover versions available and to load the application.

Note: Notice the versions of gnu are different across the versions.

To load a particular version of VTK, you must first load the associated version of GNU that VTK has been built with, for example:

[]$ ml
Currently Loaded Modules:
  1) slurm/16.05 (S)   2) compilers/gnu/4.9 (dev)   3) mpi/mvapich2/2.0.1 (M)


[]$ module load libs/vtk/8.2.0
Lmod has detected the following error: These module(s) exist but cannot be
loaded as requested: "libs/vtk/8.2.0"
   Try: "module spider libs/vtk/8.2.0" to see how to load the module(s).


[]$ module load compilers/gnu/9.1 libs/vtk/8.2.0
The following have been reloaded with a version change:
  1) compilers/gnu/4.9 => compilers/gnu/9.1
  2) mpi/mvapich2/2.0.1 => mpi/mvapich2/2.3.1


[]$ ml
Currently Loaded Modules:
  1) slurm/16.05       (S)     3) mpi/mvapich2/2.3.1 (M)
  2) compilers/gnu/9.1 (dev)   4) libs/vtk/8.2.0

Note:

Since VTK 8.2.0 was built with GNU 9.1, this module must be loaded first.
Notice how the version of mvapich2 has automatically been updated from 2.0.1 to 2.3.1. This is because this is the mvapich2 version that has been built with GNU 9.1