Scalable Visualization of Parallel Systems

ions are also highly dependent on the user and the context, and an abstraction that makes something very clear for someone may just completely miss the point for someone else. 4. How much will the user be able to interact with the display? Some visualization systems only display the data, or give the user very little ability to decide on different ways to look at the data. Allowing the user to interact with the data can enhance the flexibility of the system, but also increases its complexity. 5. How does the display scale with the number of processors? Will a display give the same information if the system is using 200 processors instead of 4? Some displays lose information or become useless if too many processors are being visualized. Because of the limited screen size, visualization systems need to decide how to merge data for display without losing important details. 6. How much work is involved in creating a view? Some views are created automatically by the visualization system, an..