Seeing It All at Once with Barry†

Improving data visualization paradigms for performance management is an or-phaned area of tool development. Tool vendors avoid investing in development if they see no demand, while capacity planners and performance analysts do not demand what they have not conceived. We attempt to cut this Gordian knot with ’Barry’; a 3D performance visualization suite based on barycentric coordinates. Potentially thousands of active processors, servers, network segments or applica-tions can be viewed as a moving cloud of points that produces easily comprehended visual patterns due to correlations in the workload dynamics. Barry provides an op-timal impedance match between the measured computer system and the cognitive computer system (your brain). The purpose of computing is insight, not num-bers. —Richard Hamming