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Introduction to week 4

Watch Dr. Geert Jan Bex introducing week 4 of the course focus on professional tools (ARM DDT, ITAC and GDB) for debugging parallel programs.

Week 4 learning goals

During this week, you’ll learn about

  • Finding bugs in MPI code using a debugger,
  • Exploring data in MPI code,
  • Debugging OpenMP code,
  • Debugging hybrid MPI/OpenMP code,
  • Finding race conditions and deadlocks in OpenMP code using runtime verification tools,
  • Finding deadlocks and other problems in MPI code using runtime verification tools.
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