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Subject: Debuggers <was Re: Acceptable efficiency factors>
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In article <9521@hubcap.clemson.edu> argosy!ian@decwrl.dec.com (Ian L. Kaplan) writes:
>Full symbolic debugging can also be supported on a
>SIMD machine.  Has anyone done a symbolic debugger for a large scale
>MIMD system?

Yes, Myrias has such a debugger.  It has been in use for about a year and it
is often used on hundreds of processors to debug both Fortran and C programs.
It is interactive, fully symbolic and doesn't introduce a probe effect (this
is due to the memory/programming model that Myrias uses).

>
>  Of course I am biased.
>
>                       Ian Kaplan
>		       MasPar Computer Corp.
>		       ian@maspar.com

Aren't we all.

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