Performance Test Suites for OptIPuter Visualization Applications

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Performance Test Suites for OptIPuter
Visualization Applications

• Xingfu Wu and Valerie Taylor
• Department of Computer Science
• Texas AM University
• Fourth Annual Workshop on OptIPuter
  Networing/Backplane Architecture
• UCSD, January 17, 2006

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Outline

• OptIPuter Software Architecture
• Performance test suites
• Performance Analysis and Monitoring
• Year 3 Accomplishments
• Year 4 Plans
• Year 5 Plans

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OptIPuter Software Architecture
Applications (Neuroscience, Geophysics, )
Visualization (SAGE, JuxtaView, Vol-a-Tile, )
Distributed Virtual Computer (Coordinated
Network and Resource Configuration)
Novel Transport Protocols
Optical Network Configuration
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Performance Test Suites

• Goal fine-tune OptIPuter software
• Measure performance of each layer with different
  combinations
• Performance measurement methods, metrics, and
  tools for each layer
• Analyze how each layer impacts each other in
  order to improve performance
• One layer 20 improve, the other ?
• Use real-time performance tools to monitor
  graphics performance, cluster performance, and
  network performance

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Real-time Performance Monitoring

• Graphics performance monitoring
• Rendering
• Display
• Cluster performance monitoring
• Node status
• Node management
• Network performance monitoring

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Graphics Performance by SAGE
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Cluster Performance Monitoring
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Year 3
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Year 4
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Year 5
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Performance Survey

• Based on five-layer OptIPuter software
  architecture
• What kind of performance data do you collect at
  each layer?
• What kinds of performance measurement methods,
  metrics, and tools do you use at each layer?
• Do you use real-time performance monitoring
  tools? What kinds?

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Performance Survey Form

• NAME ________________________________
• EMAIL ________________________________
• OptIPuter software architecture has five layers
• Applications
• Visualization
• Distributed Virtual Computer
• Novel Transport Protocols
• Optical Network Configuration
• Please identify the layer(s) for which you have
  been conducting performance tests.
• For each layer identified above, identify the
  testbed used for the performance tests, the
  performance tools and metrics used for each test,
  and the period of time that you have been
  conducting tests.