GNU Plot

Description
	Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility
Site	Version (Latest: v4.1.6)	Notes
		Not currently available

License

Gnuplot is free software released under the GNU Public License.

Users of this application should credit the code authors and the NGS accordingly and where applicable the specific site where the code is installed, when publishing work using NGS resources.

Running the Application on the NGS (General)

Gnuplot can be used interactively or to run pre-prepared scripts in batch mode. The examples here  are based on the Gnuplot demo at http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/candlesticks.html, which produces output like:

• Submission Using the UI/WMS

  To submit an Gnuplot job via the WMS, login to the UI and create a JDL file as below, replacing your ngs ID on the UI for ngsxxxx, then submit using:

  glite-wms-job-submit -o jobIDs -a gnuplot.jdl

  Type = "Job";
  JobType = "normal";
  Executable = "/usr/ngs/GNUPLOT"; 
  Arguments = "candlesticks.5.gnu"; 
  CpuNumber = 1; 
  StdOutput = "std.out"; 
  StdError = "std.err"; 
  Myproxyserver= "myproxy.ngs.ac.uk"; 
  InputSandbox = {"candlesticks.5.gnu", "candlesticks.dat"}; 
  InputSandboxBaseURI = "gsiftp://ngsui03.ngs.ac.uk:2811/home/ngsxxxx/abc"; 
  OutputSandbox = {"std.err","candlesticks.5.png","std.out"}; 
  OutputSandboxBaseDestURI = "gsiftp://ngsui03.ngs.ac.uk:2811/home/ngsxxxx/abc"; 
  Requirements = (      
       member("NGS-UEE-GNUPLOT", other.GlueHostApplicationSoftwareRunTimeEnvironment) #
  );
  ShallowRetryCount = -1;

• Submission Using Globus

  Eg To submit an ABC job use the following command (one line. You should not include the backslashes):

  globus-url-copy -cd -rp file:///$PWD/candlesticks.5.gnu gsiftp://ngs.leeds.ac.uk/gnuplot/candlesticks.5.gnu
  globus-url-copy -cd -rp file:///$PWD/candlesticks.dat gsiftp://ngs.leeds.ac.uk/gnuplot/candlesticks.dat
  globusrun -b -r ngs.leeds.ac.uk/jobmanager-lsf '(executable=/usr/ngs/GNUPLOT) \
  (arguments="candlesticks.5.gnu")(jobtype=single)'
  or
  globus-job-run ngs.leeds.ac.uk/jobmanager-pbs -d gnuplot \
    /usr/ngs/GNUPLOT candlesticks.5.gnu
  globus-url-copy -rp gsiftp://ngs.leeds.ac.uk/gnuplot/candlesticks.5.png file:///$PWD/candlesticks.5.png
   
   

  • This runs the default version. To run 4.2.2 use GNUPLOT_4_2_2 instead of GNUPLOT.

Further Information

Documentation and Frequently asked questions can be found on the official web site at http://gnuplot.info