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BRISK: a portable and flexible distributed instrumentation system
Author(s) -
Bakic̀ Aleksandar,
Mutka Matt W.,
Rover Diane T.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/1097-024x(200010)30:12<1353::aid-spe335>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - instrumentation (computer programming) , flexibility (engineering) , computer science , extensibility , synchronization (alternating current) , embedded system , simple (philosophy) , distributed computing , operating system , telecommunications , channel (broadcasting) , mathematics , epistemology , statistics , philosophy
Researchers and practitioners in the area of parallel and distributed computing have been lacking a portable, flexible and robust distributed instrumentation system. This paper presents the reference implementation of Baseline Reduced Instrumentation System Kernel (BRISK). BRISK was developed as a part of a realtime system instrumentation and performance visualization project. The design is based on a simple distributed instrumentation system model for flexibility and extensibility. The basic implementation poses minimalistic system requirements and achieves high performance. The paper also shows evaluations of BRISK on both basic and advanced configurations. The first evaluation emphasizes local, simple performance metrics; and the second highlights aggregate performance, built‐in clock synchronization and dynamic on‐line sorting. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.