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This paper describes an infrastructure for threaded applications monitoring – TOM (Thread-enabled OMIS Monitor). TOM provides tools supporting application development, such as debuggers or performance analyzers, with needed monitoring services. We describe problems specific to monitoring multithreaded applications. Then we overview the architecture of TOM and provide some design details. We focus on Application Monitors which are the key concept in TOM, being additional monitoring threads for each process of the monitored applications. The Application Monitors enable efficient and portable solutions to the most important problems related to monitoring multithreaded applications. Finally, we describe the evaluation of the monitoring overhead on a real application example.
This work has been carried out within the Polish-German collaboration and is supported, in part, by KBN under grant 4 T11C 026 22, and, in part concerning SGI, under grant 6 T11 0052
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Baliś, B., Bubak, M., Funika, W., Wismüller, R., Kaplita, G. (2004). Monitoring Threaded Application with Thread-Enabled OMIS Monitor. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Paprzycki, M., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3019. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24669-5_43
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