Tecplot 360 EX can load data from files on your local machine or accessible from a network file share using modules called loaders, each of which understands data in a particular format. A number of loaders are provided with Tecplot 360 EX for commonly-used CFD and general scientific and engineering formats as well as various Tecplot formats. See “Loading Data Using a Loader” on page 59.
You can also load data from Tecplot SZL Server, a lightweight module you can install on a remote Linux host (such as a compute cluster) to get access to your data when it is not practical to move it off the cluster to a local drive or to a network file share, and when you cannot reasonably run Tecplot 360 EX on the remote host over a remote desktop setup.
To set up Tecplot SZL Server, see "Installing SZL Server" in the Tecplot 360 EX Installation Guide. To open data hosted by SZL Server, see “Loading Remote Data using Tecplot SZL Server” on page 121.