| Autor: |
Gustavo Guevara, Travis Desell, Jason LaPorte, Carlos A. Varela |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2011 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
CLEI Electronic Journal, Vol 14, Iss 1 (2011) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
0717-5000 |
| DOI: |
10.19153/cleiej.14.1.7 |
| Popis: |
Effective visualization is critical to developing, analyzing, and optimizing distributed systems. We have developed OverView, a tool for online/offline distributed systems visualization, that enables modular layout mechanisms, so that different distributed system high-level programming abstractions such as actors or processes can be visualized in intuitive ways. OverView uses by default a hierarchical concentric layout that distinguishes entities from containers allowing migration patterns triggered by adaptive middleware to be visualized. In this paper, we develop a force-directed layout strategy that connects entities according to their communication patterns in order to directly exhibit the application communication topologies. In force-directed visualization, entities`' locations are encoded with different colors to illustrate load balancing. We compare these layouts using quantitative metrics including communication to entity ratio, applied on common distributed application topologies. We conclude that modular visualization is necessary to effectively visualize distributed systems since no one layout is best for all applications. |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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