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<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
<ol>
<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a
href="file:///.a/nfast/users/fish/flux/testbed/www/hyperviewer/index.html#platforms">Supported
platforms, release notes<br>
</a></li>
<li><a
href="file:///.a/nfast/users/fish/flux/testbed/www/hyperviewer/index.html#dependencies">Package
dependencies</a></li>
<li><a href="#install">Installing hypview</a></li>
<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
<li><a href="#getting_unix">Getting and unpacking the Emulab
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<li><a href="#building_windows">Building the Emulab HyperViewer
client
program from sources (Windows)</a></li>
<li><a href="#platforms">Supported platforms</a></li>
<li><a href="#dependencies">Package dependencies</a></li>
</ol>
<li><a href="#run">Running hypview as a script</a></li>
<li><a href="#gui">The hypview Graphical User Interface</a></li>
......@@ -40,6 +45,25 @@ topologies for Emulab experiments.&nbsp; In detail, we have wrapped the
HyperViewer in a wxGlade Python graphical user
interface, and connected it to the Emulab database via XML-RPC over SSH.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">hypview</span>
supports interactive three-dimensional exploration of experiment
network topologies, and scales to very large topologies.&nbsp; Here is
a before-and-after view of a moderate-sized network with 541
nodes.&nbsp; First is the static 2D Graphviz view, using an algorithm
which is perfectly adequate for smaller topologies.&nbsp; Then a
snapshot
from hypview of the same topology, where more detail is apparent.&nbsp;
Interactively, it is easy to reach out from the high-detail area in the
center of the sphere to look more closely into the compressed areas
near the center of the sphere.<br>
<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="graphviz_biglan.jpg"><img
style="border: 2px solid ; width: 320px; height: 348px;" alt=""
title="Click for full-size image." src="graphviz_biglan_small.jpg"></a><a
href="graphviz_biglan.jpg">&nbsp; </a><a href="gui_top2.jpg"><img
align="top" style="border: 2px solid ; width: 380px; height: 326px;"
alt="" src="gui_top_small2.jpg" title="Click for full-size image."></a></div>
<br>
The <a href="http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/h3cga/">HyperViewer</a>
software was developed by <a
href="http://graphics.stanford.edu/%7Emunzner">Tamara Munzner at
......@@ -53,7 +77,9 @@ library</a> which calls OpenGL for drawing.&nbsp; See her short <a
further description, particularly <a
href="http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/h3cga/html/cga.html#hypmotionfig">Figure
3</a> which shows Hyperbolic motion over a 30,000 element
Unix file system.<br>
Unix file system.&nbsp; The drawing and picking algorithms are designed
to produce a constant frame-rate by doing the most visible features
first, and hence scales to 100,000-node graphs.<br>
&nbsp;<a
href="http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/h3cga/html/cga.html#hypmotionfig"><img
style="border: 2px solid ; width: 149px; height: 150px;"
......@@ -72,6 +98,126 @@ tilings</a>.<br>
title="Click for full-size image" src="LW436-thumb.jpg"></a><br>
<br>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><br>
<h3><a name="platforms"></a>Supported platforms, release notes:</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>FreeBSD</b> - The first target system.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>There is a bug in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">ATI
Radeon</span> DRI graphics card driver which "tatters" bitmap
text so labels on nodes in the HyperViewer are unreadable.</li>
<ul>
<li>A temporary work-around which doesn't require restarting X is
to rename <span style="font-weight: bold;">/dev/dri/card0</span> or
change its mode to prevent access.&nbsp; This will still throw an X
"BadMatch" error_code 8 request_code 156 minor_code 5 when used
remotely, though.</li>
<li>A better work-around is to comment out the <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Load "dri"</span> line in the <span
style="font-weight: bold;">/etc/XF86Config</span> file and restart
X.&nbsp; You will get a normal warning message when starting up any
OpenGL program such as HyperViewer: <br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<pre style="margin-left: 160px;">Xlib:&nbsp; extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".</pre>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">nVidia</span> OpenGL
drivers on the FreeBSD 4.10 machines have another problem.&nbsp; Mike
encountered an X 'GLXBadDrawable' error_code 160 request_code 144
minor_code 11.&nbsp; As a result, our current 4.10 build uses the Mesa
OpenGL with no DRI, since DRI isn't supported on the nVidia
cards.&nbsp; You will get a normal warning message:<br>
<pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Xlib:&nbsp; extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".</pre>
</li>
</ul>
<li><b>Windows</b> - Initial version.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>Picking of graph nodes is not working yet due to a PyOpenGL
bug.&nbsp; However, you can pick graph edges. which is equivalent to
picking the node the edge leads to.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>It busy-loops too much on Windows.&nbsp; I'll try to tame that.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>You connect to XMLRPC on boss.emulab.net via SSH to retrieve
experiments from the database.&nbsp; On Windows, you can use either the
<a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/">PuTTY</a>
"plink" command line program or the <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>
OpenSSH "ssh" program. <br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">In either case, the proper directory
has to be on your PATH environment variable, and you have to have an
SSH key generated and loaded:</div>
<ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>For PuTTY: generate a dsa key for SSH 2 in putty-keygen; load
it into pageant; and paste the ssh-dss string into Insert Key under
Edit SSH Keys on your "My Emulab" page after logging in at <a
href="https://www.emulab.net">https://www.emulab.net</a>.&nbsp; (PuTTY
includes a good online manual.)</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>For OpenSSH: use ssh-keygen if necessary; start an ssh-agent
and load the key with:</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<pre style="margin-left: 160px;">eval `ssh-agent -s`<br>ssh-add .ssh/id_dsa<br></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 120px;">Paste the id_dsa.pub into the Emulab
page as above, and do the following once to get boss.emulab.net put
into your .ssh/known_hosts file:<br>
</div>
<pre style="margin-left: 160px;">ssh boss.emulab.net</pre>
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>Linux</b> - Pretty much untested.<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>Edit the GNUMakefile to select CPU=linux before building,</li>
<li>and also select the include of Makefile.linuxwxpy in
hypviewer/Makefile.main .<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Please send problem reports to <a href="mailto:fish@cs.utah.edu">Russ
Fish</a>.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="dependencies"></a>Package dependencies: </h4>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">It needs wxPython, which on Unix
requires Python 2.3, wx_GTK2, GTK-x11, Pango, and glib, as well as glX
and
OpenGL.&nbsp; On Windows, the distributions of Python, wxPython, and
PyOpenGL are
self-contained.<br>
<br>
Plus wxGlade on top of wxPython if you want to modify the GUI design.<br>
</div>
<br>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"></div>
<br>
<h3><a name="install"></a>Installing hypview</h3>
<h4><a name="getting_unix"></a>Getting and unpacking the Emulab
HyperViewer
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client program (Windows):<br>
</h4>
<ul>
<li>You first need to download and install the Windows versions of
<li>You first need Python, wxWindows, and PyOpenGL.&nbsp; The easy
way is to get it all packaged together in <a
href="http://www.emulab.net/downloads/Python22-wxWindows-PyOpenGL.exe">one
exe file</a>, and unpack to the location of your choice.&nbsp; The
download size is 25 meg and installed it becomes 56 meg.&nbsp; The
default unpack location is C:\, in which case you can also unpack <a
href="http://www.emulab.net/downloads/Python22-wxWindows-shortcuts.exe">these
shortcuts</a> into your Start Menu/Programs folder for the effect of a
normal installation.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Another approach is to download and install the official Windows
versions of
the following :</li>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.2.3/Python-2.2.3.exe">Python
2.2</a>, <a href="http://www.python.org/">(Python home page)</a><br>
2.2</a>, <a href="http://www.python.org/">(Python home page)</a>, 8
-&gt; 30 meg, User or Admin install.<br>
</li>
<li><a
href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPythonWIN32-2.4.2.4u-Py22.exe">wxWindows
2.4.2</a>, <a href="http://www.wxpython.org/">(wxWindows home page)</a><br>
2.4.2</a>, <a href="http://www.wxpython.org/">(wxWindows home page)</a>,
8 -&gt; 21 meg, User or Admin install, requires reboot.<br>
</li>
<li><a
href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyopengl/PyOpenGL-2.0.0.44.win32-py2.2.exe?download">PyOpenGL
2.0.0.44</a>, <a href="http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/">(PyOpenGL
home page)</a></li>
home page)</a>, 1.5 -&gt; 5 meg, Admin install only.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Verify that it's all working by running
<ul>
<li>Verify that it's all working by running
Start/Programs/wxPython 2.4/wxPython DEMO.&nbsp; Click the [+] to open
the "Objects using an external library" branch, click wxGLCanvas, then
the Cube and/or Cone buttons on the Demo tab.&nbsp; An OpenGL canvas
window should pop up.&nbsp; Moving <br>
</div>
window should pop up.&nbsp; Clicking and moving the mouse in the canvas
rotates the object.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>There is a self-extracting WinZip exe for <a
<li>For hyperviewer, there is a self-extracting WinZip exe for <a
href="http://www.emulab.net/downloads/hyperviewer-Win32.exe">Windows
2000 and XP</a>
now.&nbsp; There is a top-level hyperviewer directory in the exe, so
2000 and XP</a>.&nbsp; There is a top-level hyperviewer directory in
the exe, so
just unpack into the directory of your choice.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Test by running hypview.bat in the hyperviewer directory and
feeding it BigLan.hyp or ts600.hyp.&nbsp; You can double-click it and
use the File/Open menu command, or in a command shell, do this:<br>
use the File/Open menu command, or do this in a command shell:<br>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>cd hyperviewer</big></pre>
</li>
</ul>
......@@ -226,10 +391,18 @@ included in the WinZip self-extracting exe file.&nbsp; You will need to
install Developer Studio 6 with Visual C++ and the Platform SDK (which
includes OpenGL.)&nbsp; VC++ and OpenGL documentation is on the MSDN
library disks.
<ul>
<li>Move the source files that are in the <span
style="font-weight: bold;">win32</span> subdirectory up into the main
directory, if that has not already been done.&nbsp; These are the
-DWIN32 versions of the files generated by SWIG, and Python library
files that are missing from the Windows version of Python.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>To rebuild the hypviewer C++ library and the _hv.dll that gets
loaded
into Python, open the hv.dsw workspace in Developer Studio and hit F7.<br>
into Python, open the hv.dsw workspace in Developer Studio, and hit F7.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
......@@ -247,125 +420,9 @@ things.&nbsp; You can get it from <a
the ROADMAP file if you want to know more about internals.</li>
</ul>
There are a couple of example files included:
<pre><big>cd hyperviewer<br>hypview.bat BigLan.hyp</big><big><br>hypview.bat ts600.hyp</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 80px;"><big>cd hyperviewer<br>hypview.bat BigLan.hyp</big><big><br>hypview.bat ts600.hyp</big></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
</div>
<h4><a name="platforms"></a>Supported platforms:</h4>
<ul>
<li>FreeBSD - The first target system.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>There is a bug in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">ATI
Radeon</span> DRI graphics card driver which "tatters" bitmap
text so labels on nodes in the HyperViewer are unreadable.</li>
<ul>
<li>A temporary work-around which doesn't require restarting X is
to rename <span style="font-weight: bold;">/dev/dri/card0</span> or
change its mode to prevent access.&nbsp; This will still throw an X
"BadMatch" error_code 8 request_code 156 minor_code 5 when used
remotely, though.</li>
<li>A better work-around is to comment out the <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Load "dri"</span> line in the <span
style="font-weight: bold;">/etc/XF86Config</span> file and restart
X.&nbsp; You will get a normal warning message when starting up any
OpenGL program such as HyperViewer: <br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<pre style="margin-left: 160px;">Xlib:&nbsp; extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".</pre>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">nVidia</span> OpenGL
drivers on the FreeBSD 4.10 machines have another problem.&nbsp; Mike
encountered an X 'GLXBadDrawable' error_code 160 request_code 144
minor_code 11.&nbsp; As a result, our current 4.10 build uses the Mesa
OpenGL with no DRI, since DRI isn't supported on the nVidia
cards.&nbsp; You will get a normal warning message:<br>
<pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Xlib:&nbsp; extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".</pre>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Windows - The initial version is out.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>Picking of graph nodes is not working yet due to a PyOpenGL
bug.&nbsp; However, you can pick graph edges. which is equivalent to
picking the node the edge leads to.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>It busy-loops too much on Windows.&nbsp; I'll try to tame that.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>You connect to XMLRPC on boss.emulab.net via SSH to retrieve
experiments from the database.&nbsp; On Windows, you can use either the
<a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/">PuTTY</a>
"plink" command line program or the <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>
OpenSSH "ssh" program. <br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">In either case, the proper directory
has to be on your PATH environment variable, and you have to have an
SSH key generated and loaded:</div>
<ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>For PuTTY: generate a dsa key for SSH 2 in putty-keygen; load
it into pageant; and paste the ssh-dss string into Insert Key under
Edit SSH Keys on your "My Emulab" page after logging in at <a
href="https://www.emulab.net">https://www.emulab.net</a>.&nbsp; (PuTTY
includes a good online manual.)</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>For OpenSSH: use ssh-keygen if necessary; start an ssh-agent
and load the key with:</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<pre style="margin-left: 160px;">eval `ssh-agent -s`<br>ssh-add .ssh/id_dsa<br></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 120px;">Paste the id_dsa.pub into the Emulab
page as above, and do the following once to get boss.emulab.net put
into your .ssh/known_hosts file:<br>
</div>
<pre style="margin-left: 160px;">ssh boss.emulab.net</pre>
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Linux - Pretty much untested.<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>Edit the GNUMakefile to select CPU=linux before building,</li>
<li>and also select the include of Makefile.linuxwxpy in
hypviewer/Makefile.main .<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Please send problem reports to <a href="mailto:fish@cs.utah.edu">Russ
Fish</a>.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="dependencies"></a>Package dependencies: </h4>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">It needs wxPython, which on Unix
requires Python 2.3, wx_GTK2, GTK-x11, Pango, and glib, as well as glX
and
OpenGL.&nbsp; On Windows, Python, wxPython, and PyOpenGL are
self-contained.<br>
<br>
Plus wxGlade on top if you want to modify the GUI.<br>
</div>
<br>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"></div>
<h3><a name="run"></a>Running hypview as a script<br>
......@@ -373,8 +430,9 @@ Plus wxGlade on top if you want to modify the GUI.<br>
Running hypview with any dash argument such as -h produces the
following usage
summary: <br>
(Use the hypview script on Unix/Linux or Cygwin/BASH;&nbsp; hypview.bat
on Windows.)<br>
(Use the <span style="font-weight: bold;">hypview</span> script on
Unix/Linux or Cygwin/BASH;&nbsp; <span style="font-weight: bold;">hypview.bat</span>
in Windows cmd shells.)<br>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>Hyperviewer usage:</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>&nbsp; No args - Starts up the GUI.&nbsp; Use the File/Open menu item to read a topology.</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>&nbsp; One arg - A .hyp file name.&nbsp; Read it in and start the GUI, e.g.:</big></pre>
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