BUSTER £º A Portable Parallel Debugger

Du Shu, Wang Dongsheng, Zheng Weimin
Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, 
Beijing 100084, P.R.China

	In order to improve the popularity of the Workstation Cluster systems, 
the importance of portability of the parallel software can not be overestimated.
Because parallel debugging greatly depends on the working environment, it is 
very difficult to transplant a parallel debugging tool from one cluster system 
to another. In this paper, an approach of hierarchy for parallel debugging 
design, which separating the parallel debugging control from the lower 
architecture, is presented. A general source code information table is also 
given out to solve the environment independence of source level debugging. By 
these means, a portable parallel debugging tool called BUSTER has been implemented.

Keywords:  Parallel Debugging, Source level debugging, Software Portability, 
	Cluster of Workstations