Parallel program debugging using scalable visualization

Author

Braun, Peter

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Inf., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

19-21 Apr 1995

Firstpage

699

Abstract

The paper describes methods and tools for debugging parallel programs by visualization and animation of the execution behavior of the programs. Based on an evaluation and classification of existing visualization environments, the visualization and animation tool VISTOP (VISualization TOol for Parallel Systems) was developed as part of the integrated tool environment TOPSYS (TOols for Parallel SYStems) for programming distributed memory multiprocessors. VISTOP supports the interactive online visualization of message passing programs based on various views, in particular, a process graph based concurrency view for detecting synchronization and communication bugs

Keywords

parallel programming; program debugging; software tools; visual programming; TOPSYS; VISTOP; animation tool; integrated tool environment; parallel programs; program debugging; scalable visualization; visualization environments; Animation; Computer bugs; Data visualization; Debugging; Electronic mail; Hardware; Humans; Performance analysis; Programming profession; Scalability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, 1995. ICAPP 95. IEEE First ICA/sup 3/PP., IEEE First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2018-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAPP.1995.472257

Filename

472257