Stack trace analysis for large scale debugging

Proceedings - 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007; Abstracts and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Arnold, Dorian C ^a   Ahn, Dong H ^b   De Supinski, Bronis R ^b   Lee, Gregory L ^b   Miller, Barton P ^a   Schulz, Martin ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA REDUCTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAMPLING;

INFORMATIVE PROCESSES; STACK TRACE ANALYSIS TOOLS (STAT);

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 34548737032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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