Debugging Parallel Programs with Instant Replay
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Recovery in distributed systems using asynchronous message logging and checkpointing
PODC '88 Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM Symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Introduction to algorithms
Logical Time in Distributed Computing Systems
Computer - Distributed computing systems: separate resources acting as one
Consistent detection of global predicates
PADD '91 Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/ONR workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
Distributed snapshots: determining global states of distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Progressive Retry for Software Failure Recovery in Message-Passing Applications
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Debugging distributed programs using controlled re-execution
Proceedings of the nineteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
Communications of the ACM
Detecting Temporal Logic Predicates on the Happened-Before Model
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Efficient Symbolic Detection of Global Properties in Distributed Systems
CAV '98 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Efficient Detection of Global Properties in Distributed Systems Using Partial-Order Methods
CAV '00 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
On-the-Fly Detection of Conjunctions of Local Predicates in Distributed Computations
SPDP '96 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP '96)
Predicate Control for Active Debugging of Distributed Programs
IPPS '98 Proceedings of the 12th. International Parallel Processing Symposium on International Parallel Processing Symposium
Software fault tolerance in distributed systems using controlled re-execution
Software fault tolerance in distributed systems using controlled re-execution
Detection of global predicates: techniques and their limitations
Distributed Computing
Techniques and applications of computation slicing
Distributed Computing
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Parallel and distributed systems: testing and debugging
Cross-Entropy-Based Replay of Concurrent Programs
FASE '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009
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Correct distributed programs are hard to write. Not surprisingly, distributed systems are especially vulnerable to software faults. Testing and debugging is an important way to improve the reliability of distributed systems. A distributed debugger equipped with the mechanism to re-execute the traced computation in a controlled fashion can greatly facilitate the detection and localization of bugs. This approach gives rise to a general problem of predicate control, which takes a computation and a safety property specified on the computation as inputs, and produces a controlled computation, with added synchronization, that maintains the given safety property as output. We devise efficient control algorithms for two classes of useful predicates, namely region predicates and disjunctive predicates. For the former, we prove that the control algorithm is optimal in the sense that it guarantees maximum concurrency possible in the controlled computation. For the latter, we prove that our control algorithm generates the least number of synchronization dependencies and therefore has optimal message-complexity. Furthermore, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition under which it is possible to efficiently compute a minimal controlling synchronization for a general predicate. We also give an algorithm to compute such a synchronization under the condition provided.