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The ability of system software to detect and issue error messages that help programmers quickly fix serial and parallel run-time errors is an important productivity criterion for developing and maintaining application programs. Over ten thousand run-time error tests and a run-time error detection (RTED) evaluation tool has been developed for the automatic evaluation of run-time error detection capabilities for serial errors and for parallel errors in MPI, OpenMP and UPC programs. Evaluation results, tests and the RTED evaluation tool are freely available at http://rted.public.iastate.edu. Many compilers, tools and run-time systems scored poorly on these tests. The authors make recommendations for providing better RTED in the future.
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Luecke, G.R. et al. (2010). The Importance of Run-Time Error Detection. In: Müller, M., Resch, M., Schulz, A., Nagel, W. (eds) Tools for High Performance Computing 2009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11261-4_10
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