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Foil 9 Java Interface for Performance Visualization

From Problem Solving Environments and the NPAC Activity for Black Hole Grand Challenge North Carolina Black Hole Meeting -- April 26-27 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Haupt, Scott Klasky * See also color IMAGE

http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/npacaddons -- see foil 105
Java provides a convenient way to build flexible graphics interfaces
The screendump shows the message passing traffic and status of (36) parallel nodes used in a sorting algorithm
In the example, the 36 threads are running the explicit algorithm on the client
Alternatively and more generally, the threads are replaying a trace of the program which is or was running on a separate set of nodes
If one uses Web Servers to control master parallel computation or more generally integrates Web into computing, these Web servers can naturally feed event traces into Java based display
  • These traces can be real-time or batch


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