Enhanced monitoring in the GRADE programming environment by using OMIS ?
To provide high-level graphical support for developing message passing programs, an integrated programming environment (GRADE) is being developed. GRADE provides tools to construct, execute, debug, monitor and visualise message-passing based parallel programs. The paper describes the integration of GRADE and an OMIS compliant monitor system. OMIS is a recent specification of a universal on-line monitoring interface for parallel and distributed programs. The integration provides GRADE with a more flexible monitoring support and makes possible the simultaneous usage of debugging and visualisation tools. The paper specifically addresses the requirements imposed by GRADE on the on-line event tracing mechanisms, as well as their implementation and performance.
monitoring debugging message-passing event tracing visual programming parallel programming environments performance visualisation