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International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis archive
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Parallel and distributed systems: testing and debugging table of contents

London, United Kingdom

SESSION: Debugging MPD programs table of contents

Pages: 21 - 26

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-748-3

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Barry Kingsbury

TotalView Technologies, Natick, MA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Debugging parallel programs containing thousands of processes and threads across hundreds or thousands of nodes by individually looking at each process and thread is possible. Possible, however, does not mean practical. The only workable approach is to organize processes and threads into groups and then debug the program by using these groups. This paper discusses the ways in which the TotalView Technologies Debugger (TVD) automatically organizes a program's processes and threads, the way developers can manually organize them when additional grouping capabilities are needed, and the implications of executing processes, threads, and groups asynchronously under debugger control.

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