3X: A Data Management System for Computational Experiments (Demonstration Proposal)

Abstract

3X, which stands for eXecuting eXploratory eXperiments, is a software tool to ease the burden of conducting computational experiments. 3X provides a standard yet configurable structure to execute a wide variety of experiments in a systematic way. 3X organizes the code, inputs, and outputs for an experiment, records results, and lets users visualize result data in a variety of ways. Its interface allows further runs of the experiment to be driven interactively. Our demonstration will illustrate how 3X eases the process of conducting computational experiments, using two complementary examples designed to quickly show the many features of 3X.