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Debugging Latent Synchronization Errors in MPI-3 One-Sided Communication

In: Tools for High Performance Computing 2016

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  • Roger Kowalewski

    (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

  • Karl Fürlinger

    (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Abstract

The Message Passing Interface (MPI-3) provides a one-sided communication interface, also known as MPI Remote Memory Access (RMA), which enables one process to specify all required communication parameters for both the sending and receiving side. While this communication interface enables superior performance potential developers have to deal with a complex memory consistency model. Proper synchronization of asynchronous remote memory accesses to shared data structures is a challenging task. More importantly, it is difficult to pinpoint such synchronization bugs as they do not necessarily manifest in an error or occur for example only after porting the application to a different HPC environment. We introduce a debugging tool to support the detection of latent synchronization bugs. Based on the semantic flexibility of the MPI-3 specification we dynamically modify executions of improperly synchronized MPI remote memory accesses to force a manifestation of an error. An experimental evaluation with small applications and the usage in a library which heavily relies on MPI RMA reveal that this approach can uncover synchronization bugs which would otherwise likely go unnoticed.

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  • Roger Kowalewski & Karl Fürlinger, 2017. "Debugging Latent Synchronization Errors in MPI-3 One-Sided Communication," Springer Books, in: Christoph Niethammer & José Gracia & Tobias Hilbrich & Andreas Knüpfer & Michael M. Resch & Wolfgang (ed.), Tools for High Performance Computing 2016, pages 83-96, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-56702-0_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56702-0_5
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