Visualization and debugging in a heterogeneous environment

Author

Beguelin, Adam ; Dongarra, Jack ; Geist, Al ; Sunderam, Vaidy

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

26

Issue

6

fYear

1993

fDate

6/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

88

Lastpage

95

Abstract

The authors´ experiences with visualization and debugging of parallel virtual machine (PVM) applications and two of the tools they have devised to facilitate these tasks are described. One of the tools is a graphical monitoring package called Xab that can visually display PVM activities inside an application running across a network. The other is a graphical programming environment called Hence, which helps the user write, compile, execute, and trace heterogeneous distributed programs. The authors discuss their early work, the present research, and the future directions of these experimental projects.<>

Keywords

multiprocessing programs; open systems; parallel programming; program debugging; software tools; system monitoring; virtual machines; visual programming; Hence; Xab; debugging; graphical monitoring package; graphical programming environment; heterogeneous distributed programs; heterogeneous environment; parallel virtual machine; program visualisation; Application software; Circuit analysis computing; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Hardware; Physics computing; Software debugging; Software tools; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.214445

Filename

214445