Greetings, A small team of us are developing a new simulation package from the ground up. Our legacy approach relied on MATLAB and other proprietary software. A hope pf ours is to be able to shed the use of MATLAB for the analysis of our simulation results and instead use python with scipy/numpy/matplotlib etc. I've successfully installed and compiled optimized numpy/scipy and all the supporting packages (ATLAS, FFTW, etc). So far so good. To the point - I have two questions: 1) We would like to have a "scope" to monitor simulation outputs in real time. We're using one tool that can take data over a tcp/ip port, but is clunky and only works on a single platform. Does such a thing exists within the python realm for plotting data in real time? 2) Our simulation creates large (1-4 GB) data sets. Since we're writing this simulation ourselves (C++) we can save the data in any format. Does anyone have a suggestion for a specific format or API that's been found to be optimal in terms of memory usage and ability to import into python for analysis and plotting? Thank you for any suggestions. We're still new with Python, so I apologize if these questions seem mundane.