What is PacketViz?
PacketViz is a general packet or interaction graphing tool that can be used in a variety of applications including:- Cache coherency "protocol flow diagrams"
- Networking packet diagrams
- Dynamic software interaction diagrams
What is the status of PacketViz?
PacketViz is relatively stable having been used hundreds of times to analyze cache coherency simulations.
Example Screenshots
Cache Coherence
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How do I Run PacketViz?
PacketViz can be run with as an executable jar archive.
% jar -jar pktviz-dist-x.y.z.jar
If you'd like to get a quick example to try out, download the source distribution and use an example ".pkt" file from the examples directory.% jar -jar pktviz-dist-x.y.z.jar examples/example-abc.pkt
What platforms does PacketViz support?
PacketViz is written in the Java 5.0 language 100% Java, and should support any OS that can run a JVM version 5.0 or better. It has been most recently tested on JRE 1.6.0.
