Progress: A Toolkit for Interactive Program Steering

Interactive program steering permits researchers to monitor and guide their applications during runtime. Interactive steering can help make end users more effective in addressing the scientific or engineering questions being solved with these programs, and it may be used to improve the performance of complex parallel and distributed codes. Progress is a toolkit for developing steerable applications. Users instrument their applications with library calls and then steer parallel applications with Progress’ runtime system. Progress provides e objects which encapsulate program abstractions for monitoring and steering during program execution. Once created, steering objects are known to and manipulated by Progress'two components: (1) a server executing in the same memory space as the target program and capable of inspecting and manipulating program state, and (2) a potentially remote client providing command and graphical interfaces. Developers instrument their applications with the...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1995
• Where: ICPP
• Authors: Jeffrey S. Vetter, Karsten Schwan
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICPP 1995, Interactive Program Steering, Steering, Steering Objects