ACCESS Open House Demonstration Abstracts

Virtue

Eric Shaffer
shaffer1@uiuc.edu

http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/Project/VR/Virtue/VirtueOverview.htm

The demonstration features software tools that support the objectives of all three enabling technology teams to develop effective tools for distributed software development, execution, and collaboration by application groups.

Virtue renders complex software and its behavior as tangible entities in virtual space. Its support for collaborative vizualization enables scientists, engineers, and other software developers to interact, as a team, with the elements of their code. When these codes are coupled with embedded Autopilot sensors and actuators, software analysts using Virtue can dynamically attach to remote, distributed computations, obtain real-time performance data and steer software execution, on the fly, toward optimal performance. Together, Virtue and Autopilot highlight the behavior of complex software, making its behavior more intuitive and easily explained. Finally, Virtue's multimedia annotation capability allows one to record an animated "tutorial" about code behavior.

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