Separating the wheat from the chaff: Identifying relevant and similar performance data with visual analytics

Proceedings of VPA 2015: 2nd Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis - Held in conjunction with SC 2015: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Von Rüden, Laura ^a   Hermanns, Marc André ^b   Behrisch, Michael ^c   Keim, Daniel ^c   Mohr, Bernd ^d   Wolf, Felix ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPERCOMPUTERS; VISUALIZATION;

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE DATA; PERFORMANCE PROFILE; VIRTUAL PROCESS TOPOLOGIES; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUAL QUALITY METRICS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84960879582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2835238.2835242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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