Rich just returned from the Workshop on Visualization and Analysis of Performance of Large-scale Software (VAPLS), co-located with IEEE Vis. The workshop featured a number of very compelling use of visualization to aid performance analysis, which in the long run will help make performance engineering more productive, accessible, and best of all, fun!
Rich’s talk materials appear here: [www]
An example of abstractly visualizing communication volume on an AMR tree, taken from one of the other presenters (see VAPLS’13 website).