Trace-driven debugging of message passing programs

Author

Frumkin, Michael ; Hood, Robert ; Lopez, Louis

Author_Institution

NAS Syst. Div., NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

30 Mar-3 Apr 1998

Firstpage

753

Lastpage

762

Abstract

We report on features added to a parallel debugger to simplify the debugging of message passing programs. These features include replay, setting consistent breakpoints based on interprocess event causality, a parallel undo operation, and communication supervision. These features all use trace information collected during the execution of the program being debugged. We used a number of different instrumentation techniques to collect traces. We also implemented trace displays using two different trace visualization systems. The implementation was tested on an SGI Power Challenge cluster and a network of SGI workstations

Keywords

local area networks; message passing; parallel programming; program debugging; SGI Power Challenge cluster; SGI workstation network; communication supervision; consistent breakpoints; instrumentation techniques; interprocess event causality; message passing program debugging; parallel undo operation; replay; trace displays; trace driven debugging; trace visualization systems; Debugging; History; Instruments; Libraries; Message passing; Monitoring; NASA; Space technology; Visualization; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1998. IPPS/SPDP 1998. Proceedings of the First Merged International ... and Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing 1998

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1063-7133

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8404-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1998.670012

Filename

670012