Debugging in a parallel environment

This paper describes the preliminary results of a project investigating approaches to dynamic debugging in parallel processing systems. Debugging programs in a multiprocessing environment is particularly difficult because of potential errors in synchronization of tasks, data dependencies, sharing of data among tasks, and irreproducibility of specific machine instruction sequences from one job to the next. The basic methodology involved in predicate-based debuggers is given as well as other desirable features of dynamic parallel debugging. 13 refs