NHSE Software Catalog

Xab

author

Adam Beguelin

abstract

Xab, written by Adam Beguelin at Carnegie Mellon University, monitors a
running PVM program, reporting on the status of message-passing,
task-management, and information-gathering calls. This information can also
be stored in a trace file, which can be converted to a format appropriate for
ParaGraph.
Xab is a set of tools used to trace the execution of a PVM program. It consists
of:
an instrumented version of the PVM library (xpvm, ab),
a runtime "monitor" that catches PVM calls and writes out event
records for each call (abmon),
a graphical interface to view these event records (xab),
a filter to convert the event records to PICL format (topg).

description

http://www.tc.cornell.edu:80/Parallel.Tools/tools/xab.html

contact

Adam Beguelin

keywords

parallel execution analysis; PVM; trace file generation