Visualization and debugging in a heterogeneous environment

• Published in: Computer (Long Beach, Calif.) Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 88 - 95
• Main Authors: Beguelin, A., Dongarra, J., Geist, A., Sunderam, V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.1993
• Subjects: Application software; Circuit analysis computing; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Hardware; Physics computing; Software debugging; Software tools; Visualization

The authors' experiences with visualization and debugging of parallel virtual machine (PVM) applications and two of the tools they have devised to facilitate these tasks are described. One of the tools is a graphical monitoring package called Xab that can visually display PVM activities inside...