CS 594 Spring 1999
March 3 Lecture on Parallel Debugging

We will have a discussion in class on parallel debugging. Please come prepared to take notes. See the CEWES MSRC Scalable Parallel Programming Tools repository for information about parallel debuggers.

For the homework assignment, you will be using the TotalView debugger on our IBM SP2. TotalView is installed in my home directory on the SP2 with a demo license until March 15. To use TotalView on the SP2, do the following:

  1. set path = (/sphome/sbrowne/totalview/bin $path)
  2. setenv LM_LICENSE_FILE /sphome/sbrowne/flexlm-5.0/license.dat
  3. setenv DISPLAY <your display>
  4. totalview &
    (or with appropriate arguments)

Your assignment is to work through the TotalView Debugger Tutorial by Blaise Barney at Maui High-performance Computing Center and to do Exercises 1, 2, and 3 on our IBM SP2. You should write up and turn in a summary of what you did for these exercises and what you learned. You should be prepared to answer questions about the exercises in class on March 10.

browne@cs.utk.edu