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....communication. ParaGraph [Heath91] is noteworthy because it provides 25 displays, divided into categories of processor utilization, interprocessor communication, and task information. ParaGraph also allows the creation of user defined visualizations for application specific views. Hyperview [Nicho90] insulates the data presentation modules from other parts of the environment, particularly data filtering modules. This insulation allows any type of data to be displayed with any display technique. Hyperview also provides extensive display capabilities, including the use of dials, bar charts, ....

....of workstations is to be reconfigured and used as a distributed environment. The reconfiguration of the network is time consuming and it would be useful to prove the effectiveness of the new layout. The Network Architecture Simulation System (NASS) provides this type of simulation environment [Nicho90]. 3.5 Combined Visualization Techniques Most of the tools reviewed in this proposal provide only one or two presentation or analysis techniques. Providing so few techniques is limiting because debugging concurrent algorithms often requires access to several techniques and it is difficult to ....

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K. M. Nichols, Performance Tools,IEEE Software, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1990, pp. 21-30.

.... Dynamic Systems, Toolbox, Functional Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, Performance Analysis, Interchange Formats, Abstract Petri Net Notation, Numerical Analysis, Markov Models 1 Introduction Today a variety of tools exist supporting the functional and quantitative analysis of systems (e.g. [25, 29, 38, 45, 46]) In the industrial area primarily tools have been developed which simulate the system under consideration and support the system analyst by providing convenient graphical user interfaces (GUIs) These GUIs serve as front ends for the simulator programs and often offer modelling elements which ....

K.M. Nichols, D. Dubois, et al. Performance Tools. IEEE Software, 7(3), pp. 21--30, May 1990.

....interface prototyping etc. graphical, structured methods in the design phase programming support by editors, high level language compilers, codegenerators, execution profilers and debugging environments, finally maintenance and documentation tools. The integration of automated performance tools [Nich 90] and the CASE methodology [Oman 90] is of outstanding importance for future software development environments, which in turn represent the basis for successfull parallel software development. Sophisticated, ergonomic user interfaces play an important role in development environments There is the ....

....previous applications. Placement of partitioned data or programs in a direct manipulative fashion is implemented with the placer tool. Trace information is generated and accessed both by performance and execution visualization tools. Up to date summaries of working projects on performance tools [Nich 90] design tools [Oman 90] and parallel processing tools [Harr 90] reveal the lack of integration and necessary consideration of coincidences between several tool purposes. CAPSE aims integration by introducing cooperation of tool components (methods) on the basis of common and uniform interfaces, ....

K. Nichols. "Performance Tools". IEEE Software, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 21--30, May 1990.

....to build commercial software to resolve linear programming problems on a transputer based platform using a PC as a front end. In [11] there is a description of the methodology and studies made in order to evaluate SIMPAR. In the literature, we can find similar tools like [2] 3] 4] 5] 9] [12], 13] 14] and [16] ANDES differs from existing systems basically in the metrics used and in the methodology applied. This work was done at Universidad Sim on Bol ivar, Caracas, Venezuela 1 2 Description of ANDES ANDES is a software monitor which analyzes the performance of a parallel ....

Nichols, K., Performance Tools, IEEE Software, May 1990.

....[89] ffl The RP3 program Visualization Environment, D. Kimelman [90] ffl Visualization of Program Performance on Concurrent Computers, D. Rover et al. [91] 48 ffl Simulation and Visualization Tools for Link based Parallel Architectures, E. Luque et al. [92] ffl Performance Tools, K. Nichols [93]. ffl Performance Measurements Tools in a Multiprocessor Environment, H. Burkhart and B. Miller [94] ffl A Petri net approach for performance oriented parallel program design, A. Ferscha [95] ffl Understanding parallel program behavior through Petri net models, G. Balbo et al. [96] ffl A ....

K. Nichols, "Performance tools", IEEE Software, vol. 7, no. 3, 1990.

....graphs like in ParaGraph [4] concurrency analysis of Ada tasking programs in Total, visualization and interactive parallelization of Fortran code in Pat C programs in Aspar, dataflow and static dependency analysis etc. 26] With respect to performance the focus is on visualization tools [39], all of which use some combination of color, graphics, animation and even sound to present performance data of executing programs on the fly, or traced data (gathered by software or hardware monitors) post mortem. Examples for resource utilization visualization are the System Performance ....

Nichols, K. , Performance Tools, IEEE Software, 7(3):21--30, May 1990.

....match specific personal preferences and requirements. PARADISE [KoC91a,KoC91b] provides customizability through custom designed objects used to construct visual models for analysis. These models specifically cater to the individual user intuition for a given analysis. The Pablo [ReO91] Hyperview [MaR89,Nic90] and Triplex [CoK90,Nic90] visualization tools provide user customizability by allowing the user to organize and control views using filter modules that are graphically interconnected to process and display data. Other tools such as Tango [Sta90] Voyeur [BaS88] BALSA [BrS84,BrS85,Bro88] and Q ....

....and requirements. PARADISE [KoC91a,KoC91b] provides customizability through custom designed objects used to construct visual models for analysis. These models specifically cater to the individual user intuition for a given analysis. The Pablo [ReO91] Hyperview [MaR89,Nic90] and Triplex [CoK90,Nic90] visualization tools provide user customizability by allowing the user to organize and control views using filter modules that are graphically interconnected to process and display data. Other tools such as Tango [Sta90] Voyeur [BaS88] BALSA [BrS84,BrS85,Bro88] and Q [MeM85,Nic90,FuK91] produce ....

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K. M. Nichols, "Performance Tools," IEEE Software, May 1990, pp. 21-30.

....animated simulations, as shown in Figure 1 [KoC91a, KoC92] Using this approach, those details consistent for all simulations are provided by the tool, and the user simply plugs in a particular simulation module to specify the necessary detail for that simulation. The Pablo [ReO91] and Triplex [CoK90,Nic90] program visualization tools utilize a visual tree structure to process program behavior data and display it. The Tango visualization system annotates user applications using an abstract visual manipulation language to specify the movement of graphic objects in conjunction with a program s ....

K. M. Nichols, "Performance Tools," IEEE Software, May 1990, pp. 21-30.

.... Total [Harr 90] visualization and interactive parallelization of Fortran code in Pat C programs in Aspar [Harr 90] dataflow and static dependency analysis in EDSA for Ada or in E SP and Mimdizer respectively for Fortran [Oman 90] With respect to performance the focus is on visualization tools [Nich 90] all of which use some combination of color, graphics, animation and even sound to present performance data of executing programs on the fly, or traced data (gathered by software or hardware monitors) post mortem. Examples for resource utilization visualization are the System Performance ....

K. M. Nichols. "Performance Tools". IEEE Software, pp. 21--30, May 1990.

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