What to Draw? When to Draw? An Essay on Parallel Program Visualization
What to Draw? When to Draw? An Essay on Parallel Program Visualization
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DOI：
10.1006/jpdc.1993.1063
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发表时间：
1993
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B. Miller
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B. Miller
并行程序很难理解，研究界决心提供工具来帮助提高理解。因此，人们对使用可视化来理解并行程序的执行产生了浓厚的兴趣。但可视化就像外科医生的刀：使用得当，它会很快切入要点；使用不当会带来丰富多彩但灾难性的后果。可视化的结果几乎总是在视觉上很有吸引力，但我声称它们只是偶尔对调试程序或提高其性能有用。
Parallel programs are difficult to understand and the research community is determined to provide tools to help improve that understanding. As a result, there is intense interest in using visualization to understand the execution of parallel programs. But visualization is like the surgeon’s knife: properly used it will quickly cut to the essentials; improper use brings colorful but disastrous results. The results from a visualization are almost always visually appealing, but I claim that they only occasionally are useful in debugging a program or improving its performance.