Triva: Interactive 3D visualization for performance analysis of parallel applications

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 348-358

  Schnorr, Lucas Mello ^a,b   Huard, Guillaume ^b   Navaux, Philippe O A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioral visualization; Grid computing; Parallel application analysis; Parallel program visualization

Indexed keywords

3D GRAPHICS; 3D VISUALIZATION; BEHAVIORAL VISUALIZATION; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; GRID INFRASTRUCTURES; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL APPLICATION ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROGRAM VISUALIZATION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ANALYSIS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GRID COMPUTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 70449532026     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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