Why You Need TotalView for Debugging Multithreaded Programs

Meeting the rigorous requirements of HPC development requires tools designed for applications with hundreds of millions of lines of code — and extensive parallelism and concurrency. Get the comprehensive C, C++, and Fortran debugging tools features you need with TotalView.

Advanced Thread Control

Stop and debug an individual thread or groups of threads or processes.

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One to Many Threads

Easily view and debug an HPC job's threads and processes.

Different Types of Technologies

Debug pthreads and OpenMP, C++, Qt, and more.

The following table shows why TotalView is the leading HPC debugger for complex, multithreaded applications:

Capabilities

Advanced
Debugger

Basic Debuggers

Breakpoints and source display
✓
✓
Command line interface
✓
✓
Memory debugging
✓
 
Reverse debugging
✓
 
Full control over all process threads
✓
 
Debugging two or more processes simultaneously
✓
 
Graphical display of array data
✓
 
Debugging C++ code with heavy template use
✓
 
Complex data structure insight
✓
 
Use Barrier points to synchronize threads
✓ 
Dynamically insert new code down to the thread level with evaluation points
✓ 

“We rely on TotalView for all of our parallel debugging needs.”

David Gunter, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Parallel Tools Team

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Multi-Core and Multithreaded Program Development

Transitioning applications to run on multicore systems is easier with an advanced debugger that can give you big-picture and detailed views of multithreaded, highly parallel code. 

Download this two-part white paper — Transitioning to Multicore (Part 1) and Transitioning to Multicore Development Part 2 — to improve your application’s performance. 

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