ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Efficient debugging primitives for multiprocessors
ASPLOS III Proceedings of the third international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Panorama: a portable, extensible parallel debugger
PADD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/ONR workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Efficient algorithms for bidirectional debugging
PLDI '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2000 conference on Programming language design and implementation
A portable debugger for parallel and distributed programs
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A Scalable Debugger for Massively Parallel Message-Passing Programs
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
A Debugger for Computational Grid Applications
HCW '00 Proceedings of the 9th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
PROTEUS: A HIGH-PERFORMANCE PARALLEL-ARCHITECTURE SIMULATOR
PROTEUS: A HIGH-PERFORMANCE PARALLEL-ARCHITECTURE SIMULATOR
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Dependable software needs pervasive debugging
EW 10 Proceedings of the 10th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop
On the design of a pervasive debugger
Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on Automated analysis-driven debugging
Grid-Level Computing Needs Pervasive Debugging
GRID '05 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Capability wrangling made easy: debugging on a microkernel with valgrind
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Composable multi-level debugging with Stackdb
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
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Building distributed grid applications is notoriously difficult: the complex interactions between concurrently running processes, middleware, operating systems, underlying devices, and interconnecting networks can lead to unpredictable and difficult to analyze errors. Yet debugging support for such systems is woefully inadequate; typically a central user interface coordinates a set of conventional debuggers. This structure leads to synchronization problems and is limited to debugging user-mode applications. In this paper we present the design and implementation of PDB, a pervasive debugger which executes in a virtualization layer underneath the entire distributed system. By running each node of a distributed application in a separate virtual environment atop the debugger, PDB can exercise full control over the entire execution environment.