Purple L1 Milestone Review Panel TotalView Debugger Functionality and Performance for ASC Purple

Wolfe, M

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Functionals;    Production;    Performance;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;   

DOI  :  10.2172/896623
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-226780
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  896623

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

ASC code teams require a robust software debugging tool to help developers quickly find bugs in their codes and get their codes running. Development debugging commonly runs up to 512 processes. Production jobs run up to full ASC Purple scale, and at times require introspection while running. Developers want a debugger that runs on all their development and production platforms and that works with all compilers and runtimes used with ASC codes. The TotalView Multiprocess Debugger made by Etnus was specified for ASC Purple to address this needed capability. The ASC Purple environment builds on the environment seen by TotalView on ASCI White. The debugger must now operate with the Power5 CPU, Federation switch, AIX 5.3 operating system including large pages, IBM compilers 7 and 9, POE 4.2 parallel environment, and rs6000 SLURM resource manager. Users require robust, basic debugger functionality with acceptable performance at development debugging scale. A TotalView installation must be provided at the beginning of the early user access period that meets these requirements. A functional enhancement, fast conditional data watchpoints, and a scalability enhancement, capability up to 8192 processes, are to be demonstrated.