[vtkusers] Announcing ParaView 0.6

[Berk Geveci]

This is an announcement describing the ParaView scientific
visualization application.

Kitware announced last week the release of ParaView 0.6, the first
public release of their scientific visualization application. ParaView
was designed with the need to visualize large data sets in mind. The
goals of the ParaView project include the following:

    * Develop an open-source, multi-platform visualization application.
    * Support distributed computation models to process large data sets.
    * Create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface.
    * Develop an extensible architecture based on open standards.

ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as
single processor systems and has been succesfully tested on Windows,
Linux and various Unix workstations and clusters. Under the hood,
ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and
rendering engine and has a user interface written using a unique blend
of Tcl/Tk and C++. Please see the ParaView web page
(http://www.paraview.org) for detailed information.

The Origins of ParaView:

ParaView is being developed by Kitware in conjunction with Jim Ahrens of
the Advanced Computing Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
ParaView is funded by the US Department of Energy ASCI Views program as
part of a three-year contract awarded to Kitware, Inc. by a consortium
of three National Labs - Los Alamos, Sandia, and Livermore. The goal of
the project is to develop scalable parallel processing tools with an
emphasis on distributed memory implementations. The project includes
parallel algorithms, infrastructure, I/O, support, and display devices.
One significant feature of the contract is that all software developed
is to be delivered open source. Hence ParaView is available as an
open-source system.