Visualizing network traffic to understand the performance of massively parallel simulations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2467-2476

  Landge, Aaditya G ^a   Levine, Joshua A ^a   Bhatele, Abhinav ^c   Isaacs, Katherine E ^b   Gamblin, Todd ^c   Schulz, Martin ^c   Langer, Steve H ^c   Bremer, Peer Timo ^c   Pascucci, Valerio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

network traffic visualization; Performance analysis; projected graph layouts

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; BLUE GENE; COMPLEX DATA; GRAPH LAYOUT; LINKED VIEWS; MULTI-PHYSICS CODE; NETWORK ACTIVITIES; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NETWORK TRAFFIC; NETWORK TRAFFIC VISUALIZATION; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL SIMULATIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL NETWORK; PLANAR PROJECTION; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; HARDWARE;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 84867660665     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.286     Document Type: Article

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