sonification

  • Sonification of Distributed Systems with RQL

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    In the past, I have discussed sonification as a mean of representing monitoring data. Aside from some silly and toy examples, sonifications can be used for serious applications. In many monitoring cases, the presence of some phenomena is more important than the details about it. In such situations, simple sonification is a perfect way to…

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  • The Light of Voldemort

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    Few month ago I showcased how a single server of Voldemort key-value store sounds.  Sonification is a valid way to monitor systems, and has been used a lot in real applications. Geiger counter would be one of the most well-known examples of a sonified application. In some cases sonification may be the preferred form of…

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  • The Sound of Voldemort

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    Recently at our lab we discussed a fun little project of making distributed systems “play” music. The idea of sonifying a distributed application can be of some benefit for debugging and maintenance, since people have natural ability in recognizing patterns. Of course developer or systems administrators can analyze the logs of their systems and study the…

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