Patent ID: 7917739
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a calculation processing visualization program for visualizing execution status of pipeline processing that is executed by a calculation unit, the program causing a computer to perform a method comprising: obtaining, from an operation-information storage unit, operation information that includes an address of an instruction that is input into a pipeline when a test program that undergoes testing is executed and information indicating execution status of a pipeline process caused by the instruction; determining whether each pipeline process indicated by the operation information forms a loop by referring to loop-defining information stored in a loop-information storage unit, the loop-defining information specifying an address of an instruction that causes a pipeline process forming a loop, among a plurality of instructions included in the test program; and outputting visualization information indicating, in a visually comprehensible manner, execution status of a pipeline process that has been determined to form a loop and execution status of a pipeline process that has been determined to form no loop, wherein, when the instruction forming the loop is repeatedly executed two or more times, the visualization information includes status of a predetermined number of executions among a plurality of executions of the loop, and does not include status of executions other than the predetermined number of executions among the plurality of executions of the loop.