Falcon-toward interactive parallel programs: the on-line steering of a molecular dynamics application

Author

Eisenhauer, Greg ; Schwan, Karsten ; Gu, Weiming ; Mallavarupu, Niru

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-5 Aug 1994

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

33

Abstract

The paper focuses on the opportunities and costs of online steering as applied to a substantial parallel application. We demonstrate potential performance improvements through the use of the Falcon system, an experimental system for the online monitoring and steering of parallel programs. The visual presentation of program output along with animated displays of program performance information via Falcon´s monitoring system enables the online capture, analysis, and display of program information required for program steering. Falcon also provides the mechanisms for the manipulations of program state that accomplish this online steering

Keywords

interactive systems; molecular dynamics method; parallel programming; physics computing; program diagnostics; user interfaces; visual programming; Falcon; animated displays; interactive parallel programs; molecular dynamics application; monitoring system; on-line steering; online capture; online monitoring; online steering; parallel application; performance improvements; program output; program performance information; program state; program steering; visual presentation; Animation; Computer applications; Computer interfaces; Costs; Displays; Educational institutions; Information analysis; Monitoring; Parallel machines; Performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1994., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6395-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1994.340263

Filename

340263