GnuPlot

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Description

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Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but has grown to support many non-interactive uses such as web scripting. It is also used as a plotting engine by third-party applications like Octave. Gnuplot has been supported and under active development since 1986.

Execution Environment and Modules

To use gnuplot with the environment modules system at HPC the following commands are available:

Get module information for gnuplot:

$module spider gnuplot

Load the default application module:

$module load gnuplot

The modulefile for this software adds the directory with executable files to the shell execution PATH and sets the following environment variables:

  • HPC_GNUPLOT_DIR - directory where gnuplot is located.