ParaViewPro support is available per end-user and per cluster. If you plan to use ParaView on a desktop computer, then you would need only an end-user subscription. If you have a team of five developers who will be using ParaView both on their desktops and on both a Windows cluster and a Linux cluster, then you'll need a subscription for 5 end-users and 2 clusters. Quantity discounts are available, please contact sales@kitware.com for a custom quote.

End-User Subscription ($950/yr): This one year subscription covers all basic usage questions for ParaView, plus provides for prioritized bug fixes and feature requests.

Server Subscription ($1850/yr): This one year subscription provides build and installation assistance for running the ParaView server on a single cluster. End-users will each need an end-user subscription for assistance with usage of the ParaView client.

The ParaView Guide covers everything you need to get started using and extending ParaView. This text includes introductions to parallel visualization and rendering, 3D interactions, level of detail, and scripting. A series of step-by-step tutorials walk you through a variety of different visualization tasks and how to accomplish them. Each aspect of the user interface is discussed and how it relates to the visualization in progress. The ParaView server manager is introduced which allows you to create your own parallel visualization applications by directly driving the server manager. The XML formats for extending ParaView with your own algorithms and file readers are covered in detail.

ParaView is built upon the Visualization Toolkit. If you wish to better understand the theory behind the techniques employed by ParaView such as geometric and volumetric rendering, vector and tensor visualization techniques, and visualization data structures, you may wish to read the VTK Textbook. This book includes algorithms as color mapping, marching cubes, vector warping and coloring, polygon decimation and smoothing, streamline generation, modeling with implicit surfaces, boolean textures, hyperstreamlines, Delaunay triangulation, volume rendering and many more. Extensive descriptions of data structures and API's, and a succinct description of computer graphics for visualization are also covered.

ParaView is an extensible application. Frequently, ParaView users will implement a new visualization or data processing technique, or new data readers or writer in VTK, then make these available using the XML formats for extending ParaView. To learn more about the VTK architecture and how to develop new algorithms, you may wish to consult the VTK User's Guide. This book includes detailed examples, installation procedures, developers guide, file format descriptions, how to write imaging and graphics filters, plus data object API details.

Kitware offers training courses on both ParaView and VTK as well as our open source projects. Please check here for information on upcoming public training courses, or contact courses@kitware.com to obtain a quote for a customized course at your location. Kitware training courses are the best way to ensure that your team will effectively utilize ParaView.

Need some help developing a custom extension for ParaView? Kitware offers custom consulting services to assist you in importing or exporting data, and writing custom data processing algorithms and visualization techniques. Contact a Kitware representative at kitware@kitware.com for further information.