BRISK: a portable and flexible distributed instrumentation system
Aleksandar Baki, Matt W. Mutka, Diane T. Rover · Software Practice and Experience · 2000
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.