2024-11-27 Debugging with TotalView (httv1w24)

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TotalView from Perforce Software is a parallel debugger for complex C, C++, Fortran, and CUDA applications. 

LRZ's new SNG Phase2 and Linux-Cluster CM4 will be heterogeneous systems comprising both CPUs and GPUs. This makes it difficult to find and challenging to fix coding errors in user codes that use both computing resources. In this online course, users are shown how to use TotalView to debug parallel codes on GPUs and CPUs. 

Tentative Agenda:

• Introduction to Perforce
• Overview of TotalView Labs
• TotalView Features
• Compiling for Debugging
• TotalView’s New UI
• Remote Debugging
• Startup
• UI Navigation and Process Control
• Action Points
• Examining and Editing Data
• Advanced C++ and Data Debugging
• Mixed language C/C++ and Python Debugging
• ReplayEngine
• Reverse Connect Feature
• MPI Debugging
• OpenMP debugging
• Memory Debugging
• Data Transformations
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Batch Debugging with TVScript
• Common TotalView usage questions 
• TotalView Roadmap
• Q&A

Prerequisites

none

Hands-On

There will be demos.

Language

English

Lecturers

Dean Stewart (Perforce Software, Inc.)

Prices and Eligibility

The course is open and free of charge for people from academia and industry from the Member States of the European Union (EU) and Associated Countries to the Horizon 2020 programme.

Registration

Please register with your official e-mail address to prove your affiliation. 

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