Visualizing distributed data structures

Author

Srinivas, Suresh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

6-9 Feb 1995

Firstpage

480

Lastpage

487

Abstract

A new programming style for large-scale parallel programs centered around distributed data structures has emerged. The current parallel program visualization tools were intended for the old style and do not deal with distributed data structures. We show, with several examples of visualizations and animations developed for large scale pC++ programs, that visualizing and animating distributed data structures is an important part of debugging and performance tuning for the new style parallel programs. Our approach is based on a new methodology for recording execution behavior that uses I/O abstractions and compile time source analysis and instrumentation

Keywords

computer animation; data structures; data visualisation; parallel programming; program debugging; I/O abstractions; animations; compile time source analysis; debugging; distributed data structures visualisation; execution behavior; large scale pC++ programs; large-scale parallel programs; performance tuning; programming style; Animation; Color; Data structures; Data visualization; Debugging; Instruments; Large-scale systems; Message passing; Parallel algorithms; Parallel machines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1995. Proceedings. Frontiers '95., Fifth Symposium on the

Conference_Location

McLean, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6965-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FMPC.1995.380477

Filename

380477