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From: mac@cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
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Subject: Re: Audio feedback from GUI's
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Date: 14 Jun 91 19:58:07 GMT
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>Pete Welter writes:

>One example assigned each processor a note, and increased the amplitude the
>proportional to the length that the processor had been idle.  The other
>example used both instruments (one for each processor) and note to monitor
>when messages were sent and received between pairs of processors.  To my
>mind, it sounding surprisingly pleasant, when I expected cacophony.  The
>people who did it are at U of Southwestern Louisiana (Albright, Francioni,
>and Jackson).  The real measure of such an auralization is whether any
>information can be gleaned from it, and although they said that their
>parallel computing expert benefitted, there are no hard numbers to back
>this up yet (this was advertised as work in progress).

'Way back in 1964 I remember listening to a speaker monitoring one bit
of some register on what I recall was a CDC 6600 in the computing
center of Arizona State University.  The operators said they could
pretty-much tell just how well things were processing without even
watching the console.
--Myron.
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