Communications of the ACM - Special issue: computing in the frontiers of science and engineering
The connection machine
Programming for advanced computing
Scientific American
Chaos: making a new science
Doubling the engineer's utility
IEEE Spectrum
A description language for engineering of complex real-time systems
Real-Time Systems - Special issue on the engineering of complex real-time computer control systems
DeBugging and Performance Tuning for Parallel Computing Systems
DeBugging and Performance Tuning for Parallel Computing Systems
Parallel Performance Visualization: From Practice to Theory
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
Creating an Accurate Portrayal of Concurrent Executions
IEEE Concurrency
JEWEL: Design and Implementation of a Distributed Measurement System
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
An anatomy of guile, the interface to Tcl/Tk
TCLTK '98 Proceedings of the 3rd Annual USENIX Workshop on Tcl/Tk - Volume 3
Software Solutions to Internet Connectivity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
PROFES '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Modeling a distributed intrusion detection system using collaborative building blocks
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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The characteristics of complex distributed systems and the applications that run on them justify the need for software tools to represent, optimize, and control system performance. The authors focus on two contemporary examples of complex distributed computing systems-one for transaction processing and one for control. They then present an overview of online monitoring and dynamic-analysis tools that support the design and test of such systems. Two techniques that can help increase the functionality and usability of these tools are the integration of domain-specific and COTS tools and the rapid prototyping of application-specific tools. To provide a specific example of integration and rapid prototyping, the authors describe an integrated tool environment that they've targeted at the types of complex systems addressed in this article.