Poet: Target-system independent visualizations of distributed-application executions

Computer Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1997, Pages

  Kunz, T ^a   Black, J P ^a   Taylor, D J ^a   Basten, T ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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