Precise Predictive Analysis for Discovering Communication Deadlocks in MPI Programs

Forejt, Vojtech and Joshi, Saurabh and Korening, Daniel and Narayaswamy, Ganesh and Sharma, Subodh (2018) Precise Predictive Analysis for Discovering Communication Deadlocks in MPI Programs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. (In Press)

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Abstract

Distributed systems are often developed using the message passing paradigm, where the only way to share data between processes is by passing messages over a network. Message passing generally leads to modular, decentralized designs owing to its shared- nothing-by-default model. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) [Message Passing Interface Forum 2009] is the lingua franca of high-performance computing (HPC) and remains one of the most widely used APIs for building distributed message-passing applications. However, message passing systems are hard to design as they require implementing and debugging complex protocols. These protocols and their interleaved executions are often non-trivial to analyse as the safety and liveness properties of such systems are usually violated only during some intricate, low-probability interleavings. Given the wide adoption of the MPI in large-scale studies in science and engineering, it is important to have means to establish some formal guarantees, like deadlock-freedom, on the behaviour of MPI programs.

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Item Type: Article
Subjects: Computer science
Divisions: Department of Computer Science & Engineering
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Date Deposited: 12 Mar 2018 05:08
Last Modified: 12 Mar 2018 05:08
URI: http://raiith.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/3822
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