Title :
Low-cost non-intrusive debugging strategies for distributed parallel programs
Author :
Beynon, M.D. ; Andrade, H. ; Saltz, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD
Abstract :
We show how five low-cost and nonintrusive techniques that work using free commodity tools such as GDB can be used to improve the debugging process of multi-threaded and/or distributed parallel programs. These techniques have been used in the development of major software middleware - DataCutter and MQO - and have proven their value by lowering the time necessary to detect and correct bugs.
Keywords :
middleware; parallel programming; program debugging; DataCutter; GDB; MQO; distributed parallel programs; free commodity tools; low-cost nonintrusive debugging strategies; middleware; multi-threaded programs; Biomedical informatics; Computer science; Educational institutions; Productivity; Programming environments; Programming profession; Software debugging; Software tools; System recovery; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2066-9
DOI :
10.1109/CLUSTR.2002.1137778
