Visualizing systems and software performance - Report on the GI-Dagstuhl seminar for young researchers, July 9-13, 2018

University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27253v1
Subject Areas
Visual Analytics
Keywords
performance engineering, software engineering, high performance computing, performance visualization, software visualization
Copyright
© 2018 Beck et al.
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Beck F, Bergel A, Bezemer C, Isaacs KE. 2018. Visualizing systems and software performance - Report on the GI-Dagstuhl seminar for young researchers, July 9-13, 2018. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27253v1

Abstract

This GI-Dagstuhl seminar addressed the problem of visualizing performance-related data of systems and the software that they run. Due to the scale of performance-related data and the open-ended nature of analyzing it, visualization is often the only feasible way to comprehend, improve, and debug the performance behaviour of systems. The rise of cloud and big data systems, and the rapidly growing scale of the performance-related data that they generate, have led to an increased need for visualization of such data. However, the research communities behind data visualization, performance engineering, and high-performance computing are largely disjunct. The goal of this seminar was to bring together young researchers from these research areas to identify cross-community collaboration and to set the path for long-lasting collaborations towards rich and effective visualizations of performance-related data.

Author Comment

This is a report of the GI-Dagstuhl seminar on Visualizing Systems and Software Performance (VSSP'18).