Visualizing parallel simulations in network computing environments

Carothers, Christopher D.; Topol, Brad; Fujimoto, Richard M.; Stasko, John; Sunderam, Vaidy S.

doi:10.1145/268437.268459

Cited by 16 publications

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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

confidence: 99%

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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“…Carothers et. al (Carothers et al, 1997) created a visualization environment that we used to observe the execution of a parallel and distributed discrete event simulation environment. Their PvaniM system was primarily intended to allow a user to observe possible performance bottlenecks in an optimistic distributed simulation, and to compare various middleware approaches to obtain optimal performance.…”

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Using Computer Animations in the Classroom

Riley¹

2010

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education

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We present several animation tools that we have used in the classroom to help reinforce some fundamental concepts of computer architecture, computer programming, and computer networking. When presenting such concepts to undergraduate students, the concept of concurrency has been particularly difficult to explain and demonstrate. When two more things are happening at the same time, student often struggle to grasp what this actually means. Additionally, when teaching introductory programming classes, we believe it is important for students to understand how their program is converted into a larger number of simpler steps resulting in assembly language or machine code instructions. Attempts to show these concepts using traditional chalkboard methods or static viewgraphs have not worked well. To help present these concepts in a more understandable way, we have created several computer animations that we have shown to students in the classroom to illustrate visually these fundamental concepts. Further, our animation programs can create movie output files that students can download and view as often as desired.

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“…The advantages of these network computing environments include 1) ready availability, Chen 2) low cost, and 3) incremental scalability. Furthermore, network computing environments retain their ability to serve as a general-purpose computing platform and to run commercially available software products, see Carothers et al (1997).…”

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Using Parallel and Distributed Computing to Increase the Capability of Selection Procedures

Chen¹

Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, 2005.

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We present a framework for deploying selection procedures in a parallel and distributed environment to identify the stochastic systems with optimal expected response when the number of alternatives is large. The goal is to speed up the process of identifying a good design with a specified probability. We present a sequential selection procedure and discuss the validity of dividing the entire set of alternative designs into several groups that can be processed in a parallel and distributed fashion. The surviving designs from each group are then processed subsequently. An experimental evaluation demonstrates the validity and efficiency of the procedure.

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Visualizing parallel simulations in network computing environments

Cited by 16 publications

References 14 publications

An online visualization system for streaming log data of computing clusters

An online visualization system for streaming log data of computing clusters

Using Computer Animations in the Classroom

Using Parallel and Distributed Computing to Increase the Capability of Selection Procedures

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