GEEKA Program for Tracking

Software Events

State of the Project

(Graphical Event Enquiry Kit)

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The GEEK Team

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… Schroeder Bernstein

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… Brain Landbonner

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Focus of This Presentation Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture Software Demo

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Focus of This Presentation Project Overview

The Class The Problem The Solution

User Interface Design Architecture Prototype

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Project Overview

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The Class Computer Science Capstone 61 Students … 13 Teams Industry Projects

Multi-User Cell Phone Game (QUALCOMM Incorporated)

Peer Distributed Transfer Protocol (ClickCaster, Inc.)

Remote Icing Sensing System (NASA)

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Problem: Optimization Highly Competitive Market Selling Point:

Fast and Small Programs Needed:

Tool for Code Optimization

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The Solution: GEEK Uses of GEEK Major Requirements

Environmental Functional

Conceptual View of GEEK

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Solution: GEEK

Capture Software Events Display in Easy-to-Understand Manner Event Any Optimizable Feature

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event1

event2

event3

event4

event5

event6

Numberof

Occurrences

Software Events

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Example: System Calls

Uncover Errors Uncover Inefficiencies

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getpid read write open close getgid

Numberof

Occurrences

System Calls

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Other Optimization Uses Network Packet Transmissions X Windows Client-Server Communications Database Queries Method Calls Web Server Communication . . . and more

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Environmental Requirements Software/Development Environment

ANSI C X Window System X11R7 OpenMotif Red Hat Linux RCS

Hardware Environment 1024 x 768 24-bit Color Display Pointing Device and Keyboard Supports the Software Environment PostScript Printer

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Functional Requirements Event Configuration File Interface to Generator Screen Display Format ASCII Output File PostScript Output Screen Update Interval Software Event Collection Multiple GEEK Sessions

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GEEK Conceptual Diagram

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Focus of This Presentation Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture Software Demo

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Focus of This Presentation Project Overview User Interface Design

Command Line Interface Graphical User Interface

Architecture Software Demo

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Command Line Interface Maximum Event Event Specification File Standard X Arguments Generator Command

% geek -m 1000 -l labels -display yquem:0.0 -- facmon -t3 -l -z

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The GEEK Window

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Current View Horizontal Histogram Scale Event Labels Scroll Bar

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Global View Event Space Visualization Current View Location

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Status Bar: Collection Counting

Events Counted When Received Not Counting

Events Ignored When Received

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Status Bar: Update Automatic

Update at Periodic Intervals Manual

Update on Explicit User Request

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Status Bar: Sort By Event

Ordered by Increasing Event ID By Count

Ordered by Decreasing Event Count

By Nothing Order Unchanged

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Status Bar: Elapsed Time Time During Which Counting Occurred Displayed As …

Hours Minutes Seconds

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Button Bar Start

Count Events When Received Stop

Ignore Events When Received Reset

Set Counts to Zero Update

Immediately Update Histogram

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Menu Bar: File Save

Save Event Counts Save As …

Save Event Counts in Named File Preferences …

Modify User Preferences Exit …

Terminate GEEK Session

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Menu Bar: Screen Sort

By Event Set Criteria “By Event” By Count Set Criteria “By Count” By Nothing Set Criteria “By Nothing”

Update Automatic Set Periodic Update Manual Set Update on

User Request

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Menu Bar: Help Manuals Update Collection Sorting Time Saving Printing

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An Example Help Window

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Focus of This Presentation Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture Software Demo

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Focus of This Presentation Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture

Overview GEEK Classes File Formats

Software Demo

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GEEK Modules

eventscommands

event counts

invocation

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Generator

Means to Execute Generator Program

Outputs Stream of Event IDs

events

invocation

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Accumulator Accepts Stream of

Event IDs Counts Events Accepts Accumulator

Commands Start Start Counting Events Stop Stop Counting Events Reset Set Event Counts to Zero Send Return Event Counts

eventscommands

event counts

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PostScript Converter

Translates ASCII Event Count File

to PostScript Event Count File

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Graphical User Interface

Provides All User Interaction

Reads Event Specification File

Writes ASCII Event Count File

commands

invocation

event counts

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Process Structure

Each Module a Process

Communication via Pipes

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Object StructureGeek

LabelsGenerator Accumulator

Application

FormSortOrder

Graph

SortOrder

Counter Clock

Counter

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Object Structure

LabelsGenerator Accumulator

Application

FormSortOrder

Graph

SortOrder

Counter Clock

Counter

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Object StructureGeek

LabelsGenerator Accumulator

Application

FormSortOrder

Graph

SortOrder

Counter Clock

Counter

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Object StructureGeek

LabelsGenerator Accumulator

Application

FormSortOrder

Graph

SortOrder

Counter Clock

Counter

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Object StructureGeek

LabelsGenerator Accumulator

Application

FormSortOrder

Graph

SortOrder

Counter Clock

Counter

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Focus of This Presentation Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture

Overview GEEK Classes File Formats

Software Demo

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GEEK ClassesGeek

LabelsGenerator Accumulator

Application

FormSortOrder

Graph

SortOrder

Counter Clock

Counter

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The Counter Class

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CounterID Create(GeekEvent maxevent)

ErrorStatus Load(Integer fd)

EventCount EventCount(GeekEvent event)

GeekEvent MaxEvent()

Copy(CounterID destination)

Delete()

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The Form Class

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FormID Create(LabelsID labels, Widget shell, Menus menus, Buttons buttons, Statuses statuses, Data data)

SetStatus(Integer status, String string)

StartElapsedTime()

StopElapsedTime()

ResetElapsedTime()

Time ReadElapsedTime()

Update(SortOrderID sortorder, CounterID counter) Delete()

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The Form Window

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The Accumulator Class

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AccumulatorID Create(String path, Integer eventfd, GeekEvent maxevent)

ErrorStatus Send() ErrorStatus Start() ErrorStatus Stop() ErrorStatus Reset() GeekEvent MaxEvent() CounterID Counter() Delete()

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Application

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ApplicationID Create( String genfile,

String genargs[], GeekEvent maxevent, String labelsfile,

Integer argc, String argv[], Function exitcallback)

Delete()

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Focus of This Presentation Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture

Overview GEEK Classes File Formats

Software Demo

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File Formats Event Specification File ASCII Event Count File PostScript Event Count File

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Event Specification File

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# Event Specification File for Factory Monitor# Valve Events0 Valve Opened1 Valve Closed# Pump Events2 Pump Started3 Pump Stopped# Tank Temperature Events4 Tank 1 Exceeded Max Temperature5 Tank 2 Exceeded Max Temperature6 Tank 3 Exceeded Max Temperature# Tank Pressure Events7 Tank 1 Exceeded Max Pressure8 Tank 2 Exceeded Max Pressure9 Tank 3 Exceeded Max Pressure# Some unknown event that seems to occur periodically10 Unknown Event

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ASCII Event Count File

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# GEEK (Graphical Event Enquiry Kit) Event Count Filegenerator /usr/local/bin/facmon -noalarms -i 5 -tank 1-2maxevent 12elapsedtime 1863# Event Count Label2 37 Pump Started3 37 Pump Stopped0 26 Valve Opened1 26 Valve Closed5 11 Tank 2 Exceeded Max Temperature8 9 Tank 2 Exceeded Max Pressure7 3 Tank 1 Exceeded Max Pressure10 2 Unknown Event11 1 Event 114 0 Tank 1 Exceeded Max Temperature6 0 Tank 3 Exceeded Max Temperature9 0 Tank 3 Exceeded Max Pressure12 0 Event 12

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PostScript Event Count File

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Focus of This Presentation Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture Software Demo

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Software Demo

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Summary Project Overview

The Class The Problem The Solution

User Interface Design Command Line Interface Graphical User Interface

Architecture Overview GEEK Classes File Formats

Software DemoBrain Landbonner

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GEEK Helps Optimization Extremely Flexible Easy to Configure Easy to Use Easy to Interpret Results

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