Initial experiences with a pattern-oriented parallel debugger

  • Authors:
  • Alfred A. Hough;Janice E. Cuny

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst;Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Venue:
  • PADD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGPLAN and SIGOPS workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Highly parallel programs are often best understood in terms of logical patterns of inter process communication. In order to debug such programs, the user must determine the extent to which the intended patterns occur during execution. To facilitate this, we have designed and implemented a pattern-oriented debugger in which abstract, user-defined communication events can be described and animated. We report here on our initial experiences with its use.