Grid Monitoring Data Analysis with 3D graphics

This paper presents Triva, a three dimensional visualization prototype conceived to the analysis of monitoring data collected in distributed environments. The basic idea of this prototype is to apply information visualization techniques in the context of parallel processing in order to render 3D graphics that enable a better understanding of parallel applications and resources. This paper presents three aspects of Triva: the idea of the 3D visualization applied to distributed environments; the details of the prototype developed, focusing in the way it can be extended, and finally the results obtained with it, showing an analysis of a parallel application executed in a Grid with the KAAPI communication library.