Graphical Support for Parallel Debugging

Although debuggers and other tools for parallel programming are becoming more widely available, they are often criticized for their failure to characterize program execution in a useful or meaningful way. Graphical representations, which are capable of conveying large quantities of information along several semantic dimensions, offer the most promising direction for describing parallel execution. This presentation outlines the problems in visualizing parallel program behavior and reviews recent efforts to develop techniques suitable for a variety of debugging and performance analysis tools.

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