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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 4757))

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Standard testing and debugging techniques are notoriously ineffective when applied to parallel programs, due to the numerous sources of nondeterminism arising from parallelism. MPI-Spin, an extension of the model checker Spin for verifying and debugging MPI-based parallel programs, overcomes many of the limitations associated with the standard techniques. By exploring all possible executions of an MPI program, MPI-Spin can conclude, for example, that a program cannot deadlock on any execution. If the program can deadlock, MPI-Spin can exhibit a trace showing exactly how the program fails, greatly facilitating debugging.

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Franck Cappello Thomas Herault Jack Dongarra

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Siegel, S.F. (2007). Verifying Parallel Programs with MPI-Spin. In: Cappello, F., Herault, T., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75416-9_8

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