Approach to immersive performance visualization of parallel and wide-area distributed applications

Abstract

The complexity of emerging distributed applications mandates real-time analysis and tuning of system and application performance. To meet this need, a prototype system that integrates collaborative, immersive performance visualization with real time performance measurement and adaptive control of applications on computational grids is designed. This system combines the SvPablo instrumentation system, the Autopilot real time adaptive control toolkit, and the Virtue virtual environment. The combination of these tools enables physically distributed collaborators to explore and steed, in real time, the behavior of complex software. Users can pose interactive queries and modify application parameters and behavior during execution.