Systematic debugging of parallel programs based on collective breakpoints

Author

Kacsuk, P.

Author_Institution

Hungarian Acad. of Sci., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

96

Abstract

Introduces the concept of collective breakpoints and classifies the possible parallel breakpoints comparing their mechanisms. Based on the collective breakpoints the macrostep-by-macrostep execution mode has been defined. After introducing the concept of the execution tree and meta-breakpoints the systematic debugging of message passing parallel programs is explained. The main features and distributed structure of DIWIDE, a macrostep debugger is described. The integration of DIWIDE into the GRADE and WINPAR parallel programming environments is outlined. An algorithm is shown how to generate automatically the collective breakpoints in the GRADE environment

Keywords

message passing; parallel programming; program debugging; programming environments; DIWIDE macrostep debugger; GRADE; WINPAR; collective breakpoints; execution tree; macrostep-by-macrostep execution mode; message passing; meta-breakpoints; parallel programming environments; parallel programs; systematic debugging; Parallel programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1999. Proceedings. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0191-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDSE.1999.779741

Filename

779741