Parallel debug tools for Beowulf

Horatio B. Bogbindero wyy at cersa.admu.edu.ph
Sun Dec 10 16:45:47 PST 2000


well, if you use LAM you can debug in parallel. for the details on how to
do it refer to this page.

http://www.mpi.nd.edu/lam/faq/category6.php3

this may work for other MPI implementation. i have not tried this outside
LAM though.

On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> > I'm porting an large code to a Beowulf Pentium 3 cluster running Suse 6.4.
> > Therefor I'm looking for a debug software for parallel MPI programs,
> > written in C++.
> > Is there anyone there which could recommend me one (if there exists
> > anything)?
> 
> I believe that the only *parallel* debugger that's possible is TotalView,
> which is a commercial product. There is a free debugger called P2D2 but I
> don't know any details about it. Of course, it's always possible to use gdb
> on any node if you know which one's going to crash.
> 
> -- g
> 
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