Semantics driven dynamic partial-order reduction of MPI-based parallel programs

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing and Debugging, PADTAD'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 43-53

  Palmer, Robert ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh ^a   Kirby, Robert M ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent program semantics; Model checking; MPI; Partial order reduction; Transition independence

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MODEL CHECKING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SEMANTICS;

CONCURRENT PROGRAM SEMANTICS; PARTIAL ORDER REDUCTION; TRANSITION INDEPENDENCE;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548274948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1273647.1273657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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