MatView

MatView: Scalable Sparse Matrix Viewer

MatView is a handy tool for viewing and exploring large sparse matrices. Using MatView, a sparse matrix with millions of elements can be reduced to a graphically viewable size for overviews of the high-level structure, or a detailed view can be obtained by zooming in and navigating through small regions of the matrix.

MatView provides:


The MatView 1.0 Beta 6 Software (no longer Alpha, complete with new "configure" installation!) is available for FREE DOWNLOAD (gzipped tar format - you can also download uuencoded and zipped distributions).
Now Works with Tcl/Tk 8.4! :-D (12/3/2008)

(Now with smaller example matrices! :-)


Interface Samples:

Main Interface:

Control Panel:

Separate Viewing Window:

Color Mapping Function Warping:


Project Status:

MatView is built using the Tcl/Tk system, and so should theoretically run anywhere that Tcl/Tk runs... (so far tested only on Unix platforms). MatView is an ongoing project, with ever-continuing user interface additions and improvements, and there are plans to add pluggable modules for simple matrix transformations, matrix graphing support, and support for more matrix file formats. This work is preliminary and experimental, and is intended only as an assistant to more elaborate linear algebra solvers and systems.

Please feel free to download MatView, give it a try, and send me back any feedback regarding its usefulness (or lack thereof :-).


For more details on MatView or any questions, email Jim Kohl:
kohlja at ornl dot gov

Distributed Computing Group
Computer Science and Mathematics Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008, Bldg 6012, MS 6367
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6367

Research supported by the Applied Mathematical Sciences Research Program, Office of Energy Research, U. S. Department of Energy, under contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC.

http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~kohl/MatView/
Last modified: December 3, 2008 by Kohl.