Checkpoint/restart-enabled parallel debugging

Authors:
Joshua Hursey;Chris January;Mark O'Connor;Paul H. Hargrove;David Lecomber;Jeffrey M. Squyres;Andrew Lumsdaine
Affiliations:
Open Systems Laboratory, Indiana University;Allinea Software Ltd.;Allinea Software Ltd.;Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;Allinea Software Ltd.;Cisco Systems, Inc.;Open Systems Laboratory, Indiana University
Venue:
EuroMPI'10 Proceedings of the 17th European MPI users' group meeting conference on Recent advances in the message passing interface
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Debugging is often the most time consuming part of software development. HPC applications prolong the debugging process by adding more processes interacting in dynamic ways for longer periods of time. Checkpoint/restart-enabled parallel debugging returns the developer to an intermediate state closer to the bug. This focuses the debugging process, saving developers considerable amounts of time, but requires parallel debuggers cooperating with MPI implementations and checkpointers. This paper presents a design specification for such a cooperative relationship. Additionally, this paper discusses the application of this design to the GDB and DDT debuggers, Open MPI, and BLCR projects.