[Swift-devel] swift-plot-log in tutorial

[Michael Wilde]

On 4/13/09 10:41 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> It could be integrated into the runtime. But I think that is not very high 
> priority - you can run the existing log processing code on a run in 
> progress to get that kind of information, and there is already a fair 
> amount of information available during a run.

Right, I agree. I was thinking a low priority distant future nicety.

> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
>> Nice, sounds good. I need to start using this, and the status monitor as well.
>>
>> I realize the plots are slow to produce with the current scripts
>> (understandably, np) but conceptually these two things could be integrated?
>>
>> How is my run progressing, both as a numeric status display and as an evolving
>> plot, is something almost all users care about, especially for initial runs
>> where the user is asking "is my running running correctly" and "is it running
>> as fast as it should/could?"
>>
>> On 4/13/09 10:23 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
>>> I just did a swift hands on session with about 15 users who now have a few
>>> days experience in building simple cluster/grid scale applications.
>>>
>>> One of the things I did was have them run swift-plot-log on Swift runs, and
>>> look at some of the graphics there.
>>>
>>> I think this gave a very useful visual impression of what was going on
>>> during runs, and so I think some incorporation of that into future Swift
>>> tutorials would be useful.
>>>
>>