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Status and prospect of ZM4/SIMPLE/PEPP: An event-oriented evaluation environment for parallel and distributed programs

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Parallel Computing Technologies (PaCT 1995)

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Debugging and performance evaluation of parallel and distributed programs can be facilitated by tools which consider a parallel program in terms of the dynamic flow of significant events and of their interaction.

This paper describes the current state of an evaluation environment, consisting of event-oriented tools which enable the programmer to exactly assess the functional behavior and the performance of parallel and distributed programs. The evaluation environment combines tools for event-driven hardware/software monitoring, event trace analysis, and modeling. It is peculiar to this environment that it closely integrates modeling, monitoring, and event trace analysis and establishes correct causal relationships between events of interest.

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  1. IMMD VII, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstr. 3, D-91058, Erlangen

    Rainer Klar & Peter Dauphin

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Klar, R., Dauphin, P. (1995). Status and prospect of ZM4/SIMPLE/PEPP: An event-oriented evaluation environment for parallel and distributed programs. In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 964. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60222-4_112

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