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Instrumentation (computer programming)
About: Instrumentation (computer programming) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 15210 publications have been published within this topic receiving 196163 citations.
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TL;DR: The Self-Organising Map (SOM) algorithm was introduced by the author in 1981 as mentioned in this paper, and many applications form one of the major approaches to the contemporary artificial neural networks field, and new technologies have already been based on it.
Abstract: The Self-Organising Map (SOM) algorithm was introduced by the author in 1981. Its theory and many applications form one of the major approaches to the contemporary artificial neural networks field, and new technologies have already been based on it. The most important practical applications are in exploratory data analysis, pattern recognition, speech analysis, robotics, industrial and medical diagnostics, instrumentation, and control, and literally hundreds of other tasks. In this monograph the mathematical preliminaries, background, basic ideas, and implications are expounded in a manner which is accessible without prior expert knowledge.
12,920 citations
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01 Oct 1998TL;DR: The Globus Toolkit as discussed by the authors is a toolkit for high-throughput resource management for distributed supercomputing applications, focusing on real-time wide-distributed instrumentation systems.
Abstract: Preface Foreword 1. Grids in Context 2. Computational Grids I Applications 3 Distributed Supercomputing Applications 4 Real-Time Widely Distributed Instrumentation Systems 5 Data-Intensive Computing 6 Teleimmersion II Programming Tools 7 Application-Specific Tools 8 Compilers, Languages, and Libraries 9 Object-Based Approaches 10 High-Performance Commodity Computing III Services 11 The Globus Toolkit 12 High-Performance Schedulers 13 High-Throughput Resource Management 14 Instrumentation and Measurement 15 Performance Analysis and Visualization 16 Security, Accounting, and Assurance IV Infrastructure 17 Computing Platforms 18 Network Protocols 19 Network Quality of Service 20 Operating Systems and Network Interfaces 21 Network Infrastructure 22 Testbed Bridges from Research to Infrastructure Glossary Bibliography Contributor Biographies
7,569 citations
12 Jun 2005
TL;DR: The goals are to provide easy-to-use, portable, transparent, and efficient instrumentation, and to illustrate Pin's versatility, two Pintools in daily use to analyze production software are described.
Abstract: Robust and powerful software instrumentation tools are essential for program analysis tasks such as profiling, performance evaluation, and bug detection. To meet this need, we have developed a new instrumentation system called Pin. Our goals are to provide easy-to-use, portable, transparent, and efficient instrumentation. Instrumentation tools (called Pintools) are written in C/C++ using Pin's rich API. Pin follows the model of ATOM, allowing the tool writer to analyze an application at the instruction level without the need for detailed knowledge of the underlying instruction set. The API is designed to be architecture independent whenever possible, making Pintools source compatible across different architectures. However, a Pintool can access architecture-specific details when necessary. Instrumentation with Pin is mostly transparent as the application and Pintool observe the application's original, uninstrumented behavior. Pin uses dynamic compilation to instrument executables while they are running. For efficiency, Pin uses several techniques, including inlining, register re-allocation, liveness analysis, and instruction scheduling to optimize instrumentation. This fully automated approach delivers significantly better instrumentation performance than similar tools. For example, Pin is 3.3x faster than Valgrind and 2x faster than DynamoRIO for basic-block counting. To illustrate Pin's versatility, we describe two Pintools in daily use to analyze production software. Pin is publicly available for Linux platforms on four architectures: IA32 (32-bit x86), EM64T (64-bit x86), Itanium®, and ARM. In the ten months since Pin 2 was released in July 2004, there have been over 3000 downloads from its website.
4,019 citations
10 Jun 2007
TL;DR: Valgrind is described, a DBI framework designed for building heavyweight DBA tools that can be used to build more interesting, heavyweight tools that are difficult or impossible to build with other DBI frameworks such as Pin and DynamoRIO.
Abstract: Dynamic binary instrumentation (DBI) frameworks make it easy to build dynamic binary analysis (DBA) tools such as checkers and profilers. Much of the focus on DBI frameworks has been on performance; little attention has been paid to their capabilities. As a result, we believe the potential of DBI has not been fully exploited.In this paper we describe Valgrind, a DBI framework designed for building heavyweight DBA tools. We focus on its unique support for shadow values-a powerful but previously little-studied and difficult-to-implement DBA technique, which requires a tool to shadow every register and memory value with another value that describes it. This support accounts for several crucial design features that distinguish Valgrind from other DBI frameworks. Because of these features, lightweight tools built with Valgrind run comparatively slowly, but Valgrind can be used to build more interesting, heavyweight tools that are difficult or impossible to build with other DBI frameworks such as Pin and DynamoRIO.
2,540 citations
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Basic Concepts of Medical Instrumentation (W. Olson).
Abstract: Basic Concepts of Medical Instrumentation Basic Sensors and Principles Amplifiers and Signal Processing The Origin of Biopotentials Biopotential Electrodes Biopotential Amplifiers Blood Pressure and Sound Measurement of Flow and Volume of Blood Measurements of the Respiratory System Chemical Biosensors Clinical Laboratory Instrumentation Medical Imaging Systems Therapeutic and Prosthetic Devices Electrical Safety.
1,674 citations