A survey of parallel program performance evaluation techniques using visualization and virtual reality

Author

Summers, Kenneth L. ; Greenfield, John ; Smith, Brian T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

457

Abstract

Performance tuning parallel programs is a challenging, often frustrating, endeavor. Many tools exist to assist in this area, most using text and 2D visualization to try and explain what is happening in an executing program. This paper summarizes several commonly used techniques for visualizing running parallel programs, with examples. These tools are an excellent resource, but still suffer from scalability limitations. The second part of this paper presents a proposed method for interacting with these types of visualizations in a virtual environment

Keywords

data visualisation; parallel programming; software performance evaluation; statistical analysis; virtual reality; 2D visualization; parallel program performance evaluation; performance tuning; running parallel programs; scalability limitations; statistical process; topology diagrams; virtual environment; virtual reality; visualization; Computer science; Debugging; Hardware; High performance computing; Packaging; Performance analysis; Scalability; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5846-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2000.878457

Filename

878457