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Monitoring tools are fundamental components of a development environment as they provide basic support for performance evaluation, debugging, and program visualization. We describe our experiments with several monitoring tools for PVM, namely XPVM, developed at ORNL, Tape/PVM, developed at IMAG Lab, and DAMS, developed at UNL. These tools are compared and their use is described to support instrumentation and monitoring of a high level distributed language, PVM-Prolog, an extension to Prolog that provides an interface to PVM. This language is being used for the implementation of multi-agent systems, and it provides support for heterogeneous programs, built from C and Prolog components that communicate using PVM.
Thanks to B. MoscÃo, J. Vieira, D. Pereira. To EU COPERNICUS SEPP(CIPA-C193-0251), HPCTI(CP-93-5383), the Portuguese CIENCIA, PRAXIS XXI PROLOPPE and SETNA-ParComp, and DEC EERP PADIPRO(P-005).
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Cunha, J.C., Duarte, V. (1998). Monitoring PVM programs using the DAMS approach. In: Alexandrov, V., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056585
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