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Initial experiences with a pattern-oriented parallel debugger

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Alfred A. Hough,

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 24, Issue 1

Pages 195 - 205

https://doi.org/10.1145/69215.69234

Published: 01 November 1988 Publication History

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Highly parallel programs are often best understood in terms of logical patterns of inter process communication. In order to debug such programs, the user must determine the extent to which the intended patterns occur during execution. To facilitate this, we have designed and implemented a pattern-oriented debugger in which abstract, user-defined communication events can be described and animated. We report here on our initial experiences with its use.

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