Visualizing Undirected Graph That's Too Large for GraphViz?

Question

I need advice for rendering an undirected graph with 178,000 nodes and 500,000 edges. I\'ve tried Neato, Tulip, and Cytoscape. Neato doesn\'t even come remotely close, and

Answer 1

You can also try NAViGaTOR (disclosure: I'm one of the developers for that software). We've successfully visualized graphs with as many as 1.7 million edges with it. Although such large networks are hard to manipulate (the user interface will get laggy). However, it does use OpenGL for the visualization so some of the overhead is transferred to the graphics card.

Also note that you'll have to crank up the memory settings in the File->Preferences dialog box before you can successfully open a network that big.

Finally, as most of the other responses point out, you are better off re-organizing your data into something smaller and more meaningful.