A visual performance debugging system for parallel programs

Author

Osawa, Noritaka ; Hisano, Kei ; Yuba, Toshitsugu

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Syst., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Jan 1996

Firstpage

300

Abstract

This paper describes a visual performance debugging system for parallel programs. The main features of the system are visualization of program execution, modification of processor scheduling using direct manipulation, simulation of execution of the modified program, and automatic modification of the source program. Visualization and direct manipulation enhance ease of operation. Simulation allows a user to find the effect of modified scheduling efficiently. Furthermore, automatic modification of source programs prevents careless mistakes from being made during manual work. These features are based on an internal model, which is constructed by using trace data and promotes efficient visual performance debugging

Keywords

data visualisation; parallel programming; processor scheduling; program debugging; reverse engineering; software performance evaluation; visual programming; direct manipulation; parallel programs; processor scheduling; program execution; program modification; program visualization; simulation; trace data; visual performance debugging system; Computational modeling; Computer bugs; Concurrent computing; Data visualization; Debugging; Parallel processing; Processor scheduling; Runtime; Timing; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1996., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Hawaii International Conference on ,

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7324-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1996.495475

Filename

495475