Systematic macrostep debugging of message passing parallel programs

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 609-624

  Kacsuk, P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MULTIPROGRAMMING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

MESSAGE PASSING PARALLEL PROGRAMS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE GRADE; SYSTEMATIC MACROSTEP DEBUGGING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033745294     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(99)00074-6     Document Type: Article

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