NHSE Software Catalog

XPVM: A Graphical Console and Monitor for PVM

url

http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/xpvm/

description

http://www.netlib.org/utk/icl/xpvm/xpvm.html

abstract

XPVM provides a graphical interface to the PVM console commands
and information, along with several animated views to monitor the
execution of PVM programs. These views provide information about
the interactions among tasks in a parallel PVM program, to assist in
debugging and performance tuning.

To analyze a program using XPVM, a user need only compile his
program using the PVM library, version 3.3 or later, which has been
instrumented to capture tracing information at run-time. Then, any
task spawned from XPVM will return trace event information, for
analysis in real time, or for post-mortem playback from saved trace
files.

keywords

execution trace visualization; parallel debugging

contact

Jim Kohl / kohl@msr.epm.ornl.gov