%0 Journal Article
%T VisHive: Supporting web
%A Niklas Elmqvist
%A Shivalik Sen
%A Sriram Karthik Badam
%A Zhe Cui
%J Information Visualization
%@ 1473-8724
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1473871617752910
%X Current web-based visualizations are designed for single computers and cannot make use of additional devices on the client side, even if today¡¯s users often have access to several, such as a tablet, a smartphone, and a smartwatch. We present a framework for ad hoc computational clusters that leverage these local devices for visualization computations. Furthermore, we present an instantiating JavaScript toolkit called VisHive for constructing web-based visualization applications that can transparently connect multiple devices¡ªcalled cells¡ªinto such ad hoc clusters¡ªcalled a hive¡ªfor local computation. Hives are formed either using a matchmaking service or through manual configuration. Cells are organized into a master¨Cslave architecture, where the master provides the visual interface to the user and controls the slaves and the slaves perform computation. VisHive is built entirely using current web technologies, runs in the native browser of each cell, and requires no specific software to be downloaded on the involved devices. We demonstrate VisHive using four distributed examples: a text analytics visualization, a database query for exploratory visualization, a density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise clustering running on multiple nodes, and a principal component analysis implementation
%K Parallel computing
%K visualization pipeline
%K distributed algorithms
%K ad hoc clusters
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1473871617752910