Debugging Parallel Programs with Instant Replay
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Debugging distributed C programs by real time reply
PADD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGPLAN and SIGOPS workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
Literate programming
Optimal tracing and replay for debugging message-passing parallel programs
Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
An algorithm for suffix stripping
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Making scientific computations reproducible
Computing in Science and Engineering
YALE: rapid prototyping for complex data mining tasks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
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Computational experiments often discard large amounts of valuable data, such as invocation parameters and the lineage of output. Our goal is to identify, manage, capture, and organize this information. These data can be used to make the scientific process simpler and more efficient, and to increase the value of the research by making it more rigorous and reproducible. Research Assistant (RA) is an open source Java programming tool that helps to plug this information leak. RA ensures that all console output is valid XML; saves invocation parameters, the random seed, and code version information; automatically checkpoints intermediate results; creates runnable experiment packages; and keeps meticulous notes. This paper presents the design and implementation of RA, and shows how RA easily scales to make complex experiments repeatable.