Poet: Target-System-Independent Visualizations of Complex Distributed Executions (1997)
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@MISC{Kunz97poet:target-system-independent,
author = {Thomas Kunz and David J. Taylor and James P. Black},
title = { Poet: Target-System-Independent Visualizations of Complex Distributed Executions},
year = {1997}
}
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Abstract
A process-time diagram showing the execution history of individual processes and the interactions between processes can be a very useful tool in understanding the behavior of a distributed or concurrent application. Managing the size of these visualizations via suitable abstraction facilities is essential for longrunning and complex applications. This paper describes Poet, a tool that collects and visualizes event traces from applications running in several different target environments, such as OSF DCE, ABC++, SR, and PVM. To manage the complexity of the resulting visualizations for non-trivial executions, Poet supports abstraction facilities in both the process and time dimensions. These abstraction facilities enable Poet to visualize distributed executions on a number of abstraction levels. To achieve target-system independence, Poet makes as few assumptions as possible about characteristics that must be possessed by all target environments. Information describing each target environment is placed in configuration files, allowing a single set of Poet executables to be used for all target environments.







