CMG 2008: Call for PerfViz Papers

It's official! Performance visualization is a "focus area" within the Hot Topics Session Area track for CMG 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The official CFP is now posted and Jim Holtman and I are the Session Area Chairs (SACs) for Hot Topics. In an attempt to build of the recent success of the Barry007 presentations at CMG 2007, we would like to see many more diverse contributions on PerfViz: Better computer performance and planning through better visualization tools, in 2008.

Although PerfViz is a new area for CMG 2008, similar efforts have been undertaken in related areas, such as HPC:

• HIPerWall: New Vistas in Scientific Visualization
  
• Code Red infections
  
• Performance Visualization for Parallel Programs
  
• ParaGraph: A Performance Visualization Tool for MPI
  
• PerfViz: Visualizing Storage Controller Performance Data
  
• Internet RTT measurements
  
• Log file activity
  

Examples of what is being in other domains include:

• Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
  
• Multimedia slide show presentation highlighting winners of the 2007 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
  
• Real-time log file visualization
  
• Dr. Hans Rosling demonstrates how better visualization tools (GapMinder in this case) can help to expose myths about how third-world nations develop economically
  
• You can play with GapMinder (now owned by Google) yourself
  
• Visualizing the blogosphere
  
• Welcome to Data World flyby
  
• How to draw trees with the Prefuse visualization toolkit
  
• Java treemap of the stock market
  
• Tornado formation
  

Why should these people have all the fun? Perhaps these examples can inspire you to try something similar and possibly contribute to CMG PerfViz. We look forward to it. Please post a comment if you have other suggestions or questions and also make sure you're on RSS to get updates about this activity.