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MPI Runtime Error Detection with MUST: Advanced Error Reports

In: Tools for High Performance Computing 2012

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  • Joachim Protze

    (Technische Universität Dresden, Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH))

  • Tobias Hilbrich

    (Technische Universität Dresden, Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH))

  • Bronis R. de Supinski

    (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

  • Martin Schulz

    (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

  • Matthias S. Müller

    (Technische Universität Dresden, Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH))

  • Wolfgang E. Nagel

    (Technische Universität Dresden, Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH))

Abstract

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a widely used paradigm for distributed memory programming. Its API is primarily designed for good performance and less for usability; it provides only very limited abstractions that help enforce its correct use. As a result, application developers need tools that aid in the detection and removal of MPI usage errors. Our runtime error detection tool MUST addresses this issue and provides a wide range of automatic correctness checks. MUST uses state-of-the-art approaches to cope with complex MPI semantics like derived datatypes, collective operations, and wildcard receive operations. However, equally important to detecting correctness violations, is that such correctness tools present all details of the violating MPI call(s) required to pinpoint the problem in the source code and to remove the error. In this paper we focus on the error reports presented by MUST and propose a new set of error reports that present complex errors with fine-grained details of the error situation. This includes a deadlock view and a view for usage errors in complex MPI datatypes.

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  • Joachim Protze & Tobias Hilbrich & Bronis R. de Supinski & Martin Schulz & Matthias S. Müller & Wolfgang E. Nagel, 2013. "MPI Runtime Error Detection with MUST: Advanced Error Reports," Springer Books, in: Alexey Cheptsov & Steffen Brinkmann & José Gracia & Michael M. Resch & Wolfgang E. Nagel (ed.), Tools for High Performance Computing 2012, edition 127, pages 25-38, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-37349-7_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37349-7_3
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