SuperViewer: An Interactive Visual Interface to Explore the Top500 List

摘要

In this paper, we describe SuperViewer, an interactive visual interface which facilitates exploration of the "Top500" list, the biannual list of the world's most powerful supercomputers (1993-present). SuperViewer is both intended as a visual knowledge discovery tool for computer science students as well as a dynamic presentation tool for supercomputing experts to represent and debate points of view on critical technological and entrepreneurial developments in the industry, including the industry's past and projections for future innovation. The tool offers four ways to view and interact with historical data to explore and represent the rapid pace of innovation and competition in the industry.