A Debugger for Computational Grid Applications

  • Authors:
  • Robert Hood;Gabriele Jost

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • HCW '00 Proceedings of the 9th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The Portable Parallel/Distributed Debugger project at the NASA Ames Research Center has built a debugger for applications running on heterogeneous computational grids. It employs client-server architecture to simplify the implementation, and its user interface has been designed to provide process control and state examination functions on computations with a large number of processes. The debugger can find processes participating in distributed computations even when those processes were not created under debugger control. In addition to working in a computational grid environment, these techniques also work on other distributed memory jobs such as those initiated by mpirun.