Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi From: Wolfram Webers Subject: Re: Debuggers for MPI Organization: TU-Berlin Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 09:37:26 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <355164B6.B57C91D6@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mark Christiaens wrote: > I was wondering. For MPI, there are a number of debugging tools. > They seem to focus primairly on visualizing the execution of a > distributed program. Are there any features missing that should be > added to make a good debugger for MPI? > > What I'm really asking is what would make a good debugger for MPI? > > -- A good debugger for MPI must have the facillities of source-level-debugging. It must be able to connect to an arbitrary process started with MPI an debug it. Further it must be able to synchronize all debugging processes. A good debugger for MPI behaves like TotalView. Ciao, Wolfram.