(This limitation is there because the original display terminals used storage scopes with persistent phosphor --- there was no framebuffer, you just steered the electron beam around on the screen and lit areas stayed lit.)
I've been looking for a matplotlib extension to do the same thing, without success.
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_intr...
Xterm need an optionnal compile switch. Vte (gnome-terminal, xfce-terminal etc..) has an unmerged patch.
It's fun to play around with
[0] https://gist.github.com/jxy/88f2972d3994dfea06fd2d3833b7ac8a
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/julia-users/zj4nQl...
