Integrating visualization support into distributed computing systems

Topol, Brad; Stasko, John; Sunderam, Vaidy S.

doi:10.1109/icdcs.1995.499998

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“…In terms of academic research, PVaniM and PVaniM-GTW [16][17][18] are two of the earliest visualization systems used to visualize events in networked computing environment simulations. PVaniM focused on large-grained events of the computing environment and program debugging.…”

Section: Visualization Of Computing Clustermentioning

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An online visualization system for streaming log data of computing clusters

Xia

Guo

et al. 2013

Tinshhua Sci. Technol.

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Monitoring a computing cluster requires collecting and understanding log data generated at the core, computer, and cluster levels at run time. Visualizing the log data of a computing cluster is a challenging problem due to the complexity of the underlying dataset: it is streaming, hierarchical, heterogeneous, and multi-sourced. This paper presents an integrated visualization system that employs a two-stage streaming process mode. Prior to the visual display of the multi-sourced information, the data generated from the clusters is gathered, cleaned, and modeled within a data processor. The visualization supported by a visual computing processor consists of a set of multivariate and time variant visualization techniques, including time sequence chart, treemap, and parallel coordinates. Novel techniques to illustrate the time tendency and abnormal status are also introduced. We demonstrate the effectiveness and scalability of the proposed system framework on a commodity cloud-computing platform.

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Section: Visualization Of Computing Clustermentioning

confidence: 99%

An online visualization system for streaming log data of computing clusters

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Guo

et al. 2013

Tinshhua Sci. Technol.

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“…Of many software visualization tools a number are related to our work. Topol et al (1995) developed a tool that visualizes executions of parallel programs and shows, among other things, a trace of messages sent between processes indicating the happened-before relationships. Work of Jerding et al (1997) is able to show dynamic call-graphs of object-oriented programs and interaction patterns between their components.…”

Section: Visualizationmentioning

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Finding race conditions in Erlang with QuickCheck and PULSE

et al. 2009

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We address the problem of testing and debugging concurrent, distributed Erlang applications. In concurrent programs, race conditions are a common class of bugs and are very hard to find in practice. Traditional unit testing is normally unable to help finding all race conditions, because their occurrence depends so much on timing. Therefore, race conditions are often found during system testing, where due to the vast amount of code under test, it is often hard to diagnose the error resulting from race conditions. We present three tools (QuickCheck, PULSE, and a visualizer) that in combination can be used to test and debug concurrent programs in unit testing with a much better possibility of detecting race conditions. We evaluate our method on an industrial concurrent case study and illustrate how we find and analyze the race conditions.

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“…The main motivation for the algorithm animation tools of the early 1990's was to find different ways of representing and abstracting the text-based, mathematically rich formulation of the dynamics of algorithms with a graphically rich, visually dynamic environment that would provide an intuitive rendition of the logic behind the algorithm. Thus, tools like BALSA [18], Tango [19] and Polka [20] provide the user with the ability to construct a front-end and associate it with the behavior of the animated algorithm. Other tools harnessed the power of a diagrammatic language to animation [21].…”

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Reactive Animation

Harel¹,

Efroni²,

Cohen³

2003

Formal Methods for Components and Objects

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Abstract. Software engineers use system visualization mainly in two domains: algorithm visualization and system visualization, and both of these are often animated. In this paper we provide a generic link between the specification and animation of complex object-oriented reactive systems, which constitute one of the most important and difficult classes of systems. The link and its methodology form a basis for communication between standard reactive specification tools and standard animation tools. Reactive Animation can be used in a wide range of applications: computer games, navigation and traffic systems, interactive scientific visualization. Reactive Animation helps make the programming of such applications more reliable, expeditious and natural to observe and comprehend. We illustrate two examples: a complex biological model of thymic T-cell behavior and a traffic simulation 1 .

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Integrating visualization support into distributed computing systems

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

An online visualization system for streaming log data of computing clusters

An online visualization system for streaming log data of computing clusters

Finding race conditions in Erlang with QuickCheck and PULSE

Reactive Animation

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