Trace-Driven Debugging of Message Passing Programs

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IPPS '98 Proceedings of the 12th. International Parallel Processing Symposium on International Parallel Processing Symposium
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1998

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Abstract

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.