Debugging Parallel Programs with Instant Replay
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Network-based concurrent computing on the PVM system
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Optimal tracing and replay for debugging message-passing parallel programs
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PADD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/ONR workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
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Communications of the ACM
Execution Replay: A Mechanism for Integrating a Visualization Tool with a Symbolic Debugger
CONPAR '92/ VAPP V Proceedings of the Second Joint International Conference on Vector and Parallel Processing: Parallel Processing
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PDP '96 Proceedings of the 4th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing (PDP '96)
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ICCS '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science-Part II
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Proceedings of the 9th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing, Analysis, and Debugging
Deterministic replay for message-passing-based concurrent programs
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) - Special section on verification challenges in the concurrent world
Retrospect: deterministic replay of MPI applications for interactive distributed debugging
PVM/MPI'07 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
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Nondeterminism is a characteristic of many parallel programs that needs dedicated support from analysis tools and programming environments. In order to allow cyclic debugging of such programs, record&replay mechanisms are used most frequently. Such techniques operate in two phases, where the record phase traces a program's execution that can be arbitrarily repeated during subsequent replay phases. In contrast to most existing approaches, this paper describes a mechanism that is transparently integrated in the underlying message passing interface. The main advantage of this approach is its omnipresence, such that a program's execution can be repeated immediately after it has been observed. Other benefits are the lack of instrumentation and a corresponding simplification of the whole technique for inexperienced users. The difficulties addressed by this approach are concerned with the amount of monitor overhead, which must neither perturb the program's execution nor generate huge amounts of trace data.