Trace-Driven Debugging of Message Passing Programs

In this paper 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Michael A. Frumkin, Robert Hood, Luis Lopez
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Features Include Replay, Interprocess Event Causality, IPPS 1998, Parallel Undo Operation