Parallel Performance Visualization Tool

ParaGraph

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Apps/MCS/ParaGraph/manual/manual.html

Purpose: performance measurement

Time of Analysis: post mortem

Type of Analysis: various, general purpose

ParaGraph is a freely available parallel performance visualization system created at the University of Illinois. It is notable for its rich variety of visualizations, including utilization and task Gantt charts, time-space diagrams, animation displays, a wide variety of summaries, communication matrix displays, phase portraits, and more (see Related Methods for a partial list).

ParaGraph performs postmortem analysis on trace data collected using the PICL utility.

ParaGraph implements many (if not most) of the visualization schemes described here. You can find beautiful figures of many of these views in the Related Publications, and at web pages maintained by the Related Authors.

Related Publications:

• Heath, M. T. , Etheridge, J. A. , Visualizing the performance of parallel programs , IEEE Software, vol.8, no.5, p. 29-39 (Sept.1991).
• Heath, M. T. , Performance visualization with ParaGraph , Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Environments and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing, p.221-30 (Dongarra, J.J., Tourancheau, B., eds., May 1994).
• Heath, M. T. , Recent developments and case studies in performance visualization using ParaGraph , Performance Measurement and Visualization of Parallel Systems, Proceedings of the Workshop, p. 175-200 (Haring, G., Kotsis, G., eds., Elsevier, 1993).
• Heath, M. T. , Maloney, A. D. , Rover, D. T. , The visual display of parallel performance data , Computer, vol.28, no.11, p. 21-8 (Nov 1995).
• Heath, M. T. , Maloney, A. D. , Rover, D. T. , Parallel performance visualization: from practice to theory , IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Applications, vol.3, no.4, p.44-60 (Winter 1995).

Related Methods/Techniques:

• Gantt Chart
• Time-space diagrams
• Animation display (ParaGraph)
• Animations
• Communications Matrix Display
• Critical Path Displays
• Kiviat Diagrams
• Phase Portraits
• Utilization Count Displays

Related Tools/Applications:

• PICL