PV-Wave on Strauss

What is PV-WAVE?

PV-WAVE provides application developers with powerful new functionality that supports a rapid application development environment (RADE). PV-WAVE includes

PV-WAVE Foundation
PV-WAVE:Visual Exploration
PV-WAVE:IMSL Mathematics
PV-WAVE:IMSL Statistics

Using PV-WAVE's interactive programming environment, you can analyze and visualize your data in less time than with other programming tools. PV-WAVE's easy-to-learn, easy-to-use interface quickly organizes and displays plots, contours, histograms and tables in multiple dimensions. The software requires no programming, allowing you to visualize rows and columns of numbers with color and animation by simply "pointing-and-clicking."

This document will NOT show you how to use PV-WAVE but will give you the basic setup to start the program, run demos, get online help and documentation.

PV-Wave is licensed for all of the University's Sun, SGI, IBM RS/6000, DEC, and HP UNIX systems and Windows 95/98/NT systems.

Where to Find PV-WAVE

PV-Wave is available for all Unix platforms, and Windows 2000/XP. This document describes usage on the central Unix server Strauss. (NOTE: PV-Wave is not available on Copland.) To use PV-Wave, you must be working on an X terminal or in an xterm window.

If your are interested in obtaining a copy of PV-Wave for installation on a University-owned system, please see the University of Delaware Research Software Distribution page.

PV-WAVE: Instructions

Setting the PV-WAVE Working Environment

To use PV-WAVE, you must first set several UNIX environment variables. These settings may adversely interact with settings needed for other UNIX applications. The instructions below provide a strategy for avoiding these interactions.

You start a new shell before you use PV-WAVE, modify the environment, run PV-WAVE, and exit the shell before working with other software. You can start a new shell either by opening a new window on an X terminal or by issuing the UNIX csh command. These instructions assume that you are using the C shell (csh), which is the default for University of Delaware users.

Start a new C shell by typing, at the C shell prompt (%),

csh

Set the necessary environment variables for PV-WAVE by typing, at the C shell prompt (%),


     source /opt/vni/wave/bin/wvsetup

Running PV-WAVE

Make sure you have set up your working environment for PV-WAVE (see section Setting the PV-WAVE Working Environment).
Start PV-WAVE by typing at the C shell prompt (%),


     wave


     ===============
     OpenMP:      Enabled
     Processors:  11
     Max Threads: 11
     Threshold:   1000
     Schedule:    Static
     Dynamic Threads: ON
     ===============
     PV-WAVE Version 8.50 (sun4 solaris sparc).
     Copyright (C) 2005, Visual Numerics, Inc.
     All rights reserved.  Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
     
     PV-WAVE v8.50  Build #2177  (Tue Aug  2 12:15:42 MDT 2005)
     
     Your current interactive graphics device is: X
     If you are not running on a sun4 integrated display use the
     SET_PLOT command to set the appropriate graphics device
     (if you have not already done so).
     
     The following function keys are defined with PV-WAVE commands:
     
     R1 - Start the PV-WAVE Demonstration/Tutorial System
     R2 - Invoke the PV-WAVE Online Help Facility
     R3 - Output the PV-WAVE Session Status
     
     NOTE:  You must be running from a Shell Tool (not a Command Tool)
            in order to use the function keys.

        PV-WAVE Visual Exploration technology available.
        PV-WAVE IMSL Mathematics technology available.
        PV-WAVE IMSL Statistics technology available.

        Enter "NAVIGATOR" at the WAVE> prompt to start the PV-WAVE Navigator.

     WAVE>

You are now running PV-Wave if you see the PV-WAVE prompt


     WAVE>

Load the PV-WAVE Image component by typing at the PV-WAVE prompt (WAVE>)


     @image_startup

Load the PV-WAVE IMSL Mathematics component by typing at the PV-WAVE prompt (WAVE>)


     @math_startup

Load the PV-WAVE IMSL Statistics component by typing at the PV-WAVE prompt (WAVE>)


     @stat_startup

Quit PV-WAVE by typing at the PV-WAVE prompt (WAVE>)


     quit

Common Problems and Questions

This page contains answers to some of the questions more commonly asked about PV-WAVE.

Q: What is pvwave: Command not found?: The correct command is "wave", but you must be on Strauss, not Copland. In addition, you must set up your working environment for PV-WAVE before using this command (see section Setting the PV-WAVE Working Environment.)

Other Resources

PV-WAVE Demonstration Gallery

Set up the PV-WAVE working environment, (see the section Setting the PV-WAVE Working Environment).
Run the demo by typing


     wave_gallery

The screen will display


     ===============
     OpenMP:      Enabled
     Processors:  11
     Max Threads: 11
     Threshold:   1000
     Schedule:    Static
     Dynamic Threads: ON
     ===============
     PV-WAVE Version 8.50 (sun4 solaris sparc).
     Copyright (C) 2005, Visual Numerics, Inc.
     All rights reserved.  Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
     
     PV-WAVE v8.50  Build #2177  (Tue Aug  2 12:15:42 MDT 2005)
     
     Your current interactive graphics device is: X
     If you are not running on a sun4 integrated display use the
     SET_PLOT command to set the appropriate graphics device
     (if you have not already done so).
     
     The following function keys are defined with PV-WAVE commands:
     
     R1 - Start the PV-WAVE Demonstration/Tutorial System
     R2 - Invoke the PV-WAVE Online Help Facility
     R3 - Output the PV-WAVE Session Status
     
     NOTE:  You must be running from a Shell Tool (not a Command Tool)
            in order to use the function keys.
     
        PV-WAVE Visual Exploration technology available.
        PV-WAVE IMSL Mathematics technology available.
        PV-WAVE IMSL Statistics technology available.
     
        Enter "NAVIGATOR" at the WAVE> prompt to start the PV-WAVE Navigator.

PV-WAVE Help

Set up the PV-WAVE working environment, see section Setting the PV-WAVE Working Environment.
Start the online PV-WAVE Help by typing


     wavehelp

PV-WAVE Online Manuals

Set up the PV-WAVE working environment, see section Setting the PV-WAVE Working Environment.
Start the online PV-WAVE Help by typing


     wavedoc

or Run PV-WAVE (see section Running PV-WAVE) and type at the PV-WAVE prompt (WAVE>)


     help,/doc

Additional PV-WAVE documentation available from Visual Numerics Inc.'s web site.

If you still need help

If you need help quickly, call the University of Delaware's IT Help Center at 831-6000 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Or you can submit a question via a web request form or e-mail.

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