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ClusterGrind: Valgrinding LAM/MPI Applications

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Abstract

Debugging distributed applications using message passing libraries can be extremely difficult. We have implemented a set of tools collectively called ClusterGrind which interface to a GNU licensed debugger, valgrind, to ease the debugging process. By generating useful, customisable reports, we believe the time spent debugging large distributed Linux applications can be reduced significantly. Profiling the running programs is also possible to find coding inefficiencies, to aid in improving the overall application performance.

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  1. School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of New England,  

    Brett Carson & Ian A. Mason

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione, Second University of Naples - Italy, Real Casa dell’Annunziata - via Roma, 29, 81031, Aversa, CE, Italy

    Beniamino Di Martino

  2. GUP, Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstraße 69, A-4040, Linz, Austria

    Dieter Kranzlmüller

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, 37996-3450, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Jack Dongarra

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Carson, B., Mason, I.A. (2005). ClusterGrind: Valgrinding LAM/MPI Applications. In: Di Martino, B., Kranzlmüller, D., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557265_43

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