Patent ID: 7631168

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for monitoring the status of a concurrent computing process in an interactive concurrent computing environment having concurrent computing units, the method comprising: executing a plurality of instances of a concurrent computing process, each instance of the plurality of instances of the concurrent computing process executing on one of the concurrent computing units and performing a separate task, the plurality of instances of the concurrent computing process including at least one interactive instance of the concurrent computing process, the interactive instance accepting input from a user and displaying output to the user during execution of the plurality of instances of the concurrent computing process; receiving with a monitoring facility information indicating at least one of a current status and current activity for each of the plurality of concurrent computing units executing instances of the concurrent computing process; grouping each of the plurality of concurrent computing units into a group based on at least one of the indicated current status and current activity indicated by the information; and displaying the results of at least one grouping of the plurality of concurrent computing units.