The design of a supporting environment for online parallel debugging

167. B. B. Zhou, R. P. Brent and X. Qu, The design of a supporting environment for online parallel debugging, Proceedings of the Sixth Parallel Computing Workshop, Kawasaki, Japan, November 1996, P1-S-1 -8.

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Abstract

On-line parallel debugging can provide very accurate and reliable information in diagnosis of parallel programs. Unfortunately, commercially available tools for on-line parallel debugging are hardly seen. This is mainly due to the lack of a suitable environment for multiprogramming of mixed parallel and sequential workloads so that the resources cannot be utilised efficiently. In this paper we present a two-level scheduling scheme for mixed parallel and sequential workloads on parallel machines - a key step in the establishment of a proper environment for on-line parallel debugging.

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