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The paper presents a definition of replay of a distributed application as a function of three parameters: depth, width, and length. It addresses the problem of nondeterminism in distributed system and proposes an efficient approach to trace a PVM application behaviour in order to eliminate races in repetited execution. Detecting races in distributed computations requires implementation of a strongly consistent system of vector clocks. Therefore a system of vector clocks was adapted for a dynamic application model. Finally it presents the architecture of a tool supporting replay of PVM applications.
This work was sponsored by INCO-Esprit KIT Project no. 997100 (Parallel Processing Tools. Integration and Results Dissemination).
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Neyman, M., Bukowski, M., Kuzora, P. (1999). Efficient Replay of PVM Programs. In: Dongarra, J., Luque, E., Margalef, T. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_11
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