VIZIR: an integrated environment for distributed program visualization

Author

Hao, Ming C. ; Karp, Alan H. ; Waheed, Abdual ; Jazayeri, Mehdi

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

18-20 Jan 1995

Firstpage

288

Lastpage

292

Abstract

VIZIR provides an integrated mechanism for on-line debugging, performance analysis, and data visualization of message-passing parallel applications. The current VIZIR includes: (1) a mechanism to multicast window-based commands, message passing and program execution events among tasks; (2) the ability to select groups of tasks to interact these events; (3) a means to report when these events cause errors in the tasks; and (4) ad hoc visualization of distributed arrays using existing visualizers

Keywords

message passing; parallel programming; program debugging; programming environments; software performance evaluation; software tools; visual programming; VIZIR; data visualization; distributed arrays; distributed program visualization; integrated environment; message passing; message-passing; on-line debugging; performance analysis; program execution events; window-based commands; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Data visualization; Debugging; Distributed computing; Message passing; Parallel architectures; Parallel machines; Parallel processing; Performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 1995. MASCOTS '95., Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Durham, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6902-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASCOT.1995.378675

Filename

378675