Fractals everywhere
The algorithmic beauty of plants
The algorithmic beauty of plants
Cone Trees: animated 3D visualizations of hierarchical information
CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A methodology for building application-specific visualizations of parallel programs
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on tools and methods for visualization of parallel systems and computations
PVM: Parallel virtual machine: a users' guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing
PVM: Parallel virtual machine: a users' guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Visualizing the Performance of Parallel Programs
IEEE Software
Performance Analysis of Wavefront Algorithms on Very-Large Scale Distributed Systems
Workshop on Wide Area Networks and High Performance Computing
Graph visualization for the analysis of the structure and dynamics of extreme-scale supercomputers
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Software visualization
The PVM 3.4 Tracing Facility and XPVM 1.1
HICSS '96 Proceedings of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Volume 1: Software Technology and Architecture
Mapping Information onto 3D Virtual Worlds
IV '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
The structure of the information visualization design space
INFOVIS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '97)
Cognitive Effects of Animated Visualization in Exploratory Visual Data Analysis
IV '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation
Visualization of programs using proximity to trigger continuous semantic zooming: an experimental study
Neural Networks - 2003 Special issue: Advances in neural networks research IJCNN'03
Tree-Maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures
VIS '91 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Visualization '91
Aspects of Network Visualization
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
An experimental evaluation of continuous semantic zooming in program visualization
INFOVIS'03 Proceedings of the Ninth annual IEEE conference on Information visualization
A management and visualization framework for reconfigurable WDM optical networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Stacked-widget visualization of scheduling-based algorithms
Proceedings of the 4th ACM symposium on Software visualization
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We are exploring the development and application of information visualization techniques for the analysis of new massively parallel supercomputer architectures. Modern supercomputers typically comprise very large clusters of commodity SMPs interconnected by possibly dense and often non-standard networks. The scale, complexity, and inherent non-locality of the structure and dynamics of this hardware, and the operating systems and applications distributed over them, challenge traditional analysis methods. As part of the á la carte (A Los Alamos Computer Architecture Toolkit for Extreme-Scale Architecture Simulation) team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who are simulating these new architectures, we are exploring advanced visualization techniques and creating tools to enhance analysis of these simulations with intuitive three-dimensional representations and interfaces. This work complements existing and emerging algorithmic analysis tools. In this paper, we give background on the problem domain, a description of a prototypical computer architecture of interest (on the order of 10,000 processors connected by a quaternary fat-tree communications network), and a presentation of three classes of visualizations that clearly display the switching fabric and the flow of information in the interconnecting network.