Using visualization tools to understand concurrency

1 May 1992

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Software

Vol. 9 (3) , 87-92
https://doi.org/10.1109/52.136185

Abstract

A visualization tool that provides an aggregate view of execution through a graph of events called the causality graph, which is suitable for systems with hundreds or thousands of processors, coarse-grained parallelism, and for a language that makes communication and synchronization explicit, is discussed. The methods for computing causality graphs and stepping through an execution with causality graphs are described. The properties of the abstraction algorithms and super nodes, the subgraphs in causality graphs, are also discussed.

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