Retrospect: Deterministic replay of MPI applications for interactive distributed debugging

Aurelien Bouteiller; George Bosilca; Jack Dongarra

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-75416-9_41

Retrospect: Deterministic replay of MPI applications for interactive distributed debugging

Aurelien Bouteiller, George Bosilca, Jack Dongarra

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While high performance computing was eagerly adopted by users as a vehicle for satisfying a growing demand on computational power, some areas are still poorly explored. The MPI paradigm is considered as being the keystone for the large development of the HPC infrastructure over the last decade. However, even today the users have to face the lack of tools able to help increase the stability of the software stack and/or of the applications. In this paper we present and evaluate a tool designed to allow developers to further investigate the execution of parallel applications by enabling them to dynamically move back and forth in the execution timeline of a parallel application. Based on an unobtrusive message logging mechanism, deterministic replay is enforced, leading to a simpler and more efficient way to debug parallel software. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)\|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	297-306
Number of pages	9
Volume	4757
ISBN (Print)	9783540754152
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75416-9_41
Publication status	Published - 2007
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Bouteiller, A., Bosilca, G., & Dongarra, J. (2007). Retrospect: Deterministic replay of MPI applications for interactive distributed debugging. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. (Vol. 4757, pp. 297-306). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75416-9_41

Bouteiller, Aurelien ; Bosilca, George ; Dongarra, Jack. / Retrospect: Deterministic replay of MPI applications for interactive distributed debugging. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. Vol. 4757 Springer Nature, 2007. pp. 297-306 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Bouteiller, A, Bosilca, G & Dongarra, J 2007, Retrospect: Deterministic replay of MPI applications for interactive distributed debugging. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. vol. 4757, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Nature, pp. 297-306, 14th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, Paris, 1/07/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75416-9_41

Retrospect: Deterministic replay of MPI applications for interactive distributed debugging. / Bouteiller, Aurelien; Bosilca, George; Dongarra, Jack.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. Vol. 4757 Springer Nature, 2007. p. 297-306 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Bouteiller A, Bosilca G, Dongarra J. Retrospect: Deterministic replay of MPI applications for interactive distributed debugging. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. Vol. 4757. Springer Nature. 2007. p. 297-306. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-75416-9_41

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