Linking Performance Data into Scientific Visualization Tools

Proceedings of VPA 2014: 1st Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis - held in conjunction with SC 2014: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 50-57

  Huck, Kevin A ^a   Potter, Kristin ^a   Jacobsen, Doug W ^b   Childs, Hank ^a,c   Malony, Allen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; SUPERCOMPUTERS; VISUALIZATION;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; PERFORMANCE DATA; PROGRAM BEHAVIOR; PROGRAM EXECUTION; SPATIAL CONCERNS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84952008079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VPA.2014.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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