Thanks for the two(!) nice tips. Just looked at libcaca, but I'm having trouble installing on my laptop (OSX). Anyway the idea is mainly to remove gnuplot as

Thanks for the two(!) nice tips. Just looked at libcaca, but I'm having trouble installing on my laptop (OSX). Anyway the idea is mainly to remove gnuplot as a dependency from my scientific code; introducing a new dependency defeats the point a bit. Jupyter would be a very nice way to interact - as you guess there are difficulties: playing well with the cluster queueing system, and currently the code is launched via an mpirun call. I'm open to suggestions. Edit: This sounds like exactly what I need! http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/parallel/parallel_intro.html http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/parallel/parallel_intr...