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With the increasing need for more computational power rises the number of processors in modern high performance computers. Coupled to the scalability of the system, the complexity of the communication between these processors increases vastly. This development can also be seen in today’s Grid infrastructures, where high numbers of resources are shared over long distances. As a result, there is an intensified need for tools to support debugging and program understanding. The focus of this work is on MPI applications running on Grid sites, and we describe the corresponding functionality of g-Eclipse’s developers perspective. The g-Eclipse framework is based on the open source Eclipse platform and extends its functionality by middleware independent plug-ins for Grid users, operators and developers. The provided functionality of the developer perspective includes remote building, debug support for individual MPI processes as well as graphical representation of message-passing based communication. This paper provides an overview of each of these functions and examples for their application in program development.
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Klausecker, C., Köckerbauer, T., Preissl, R., Kranzlmüller, D. (2008). Debugging MPI Programs on the Grid using g-Eclipse. In: Resch, M., Keller, R., Himmler, V., Krammer, B., Schulz, A. (eds) Tools for High Performance Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68564-7_3
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