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Some months ago, I had a TotalView tutorial, thanks to my job. Now, I’ve actually used it to debug one of my parallel applications and I would like to share my experience with fantastic tool.
First TotalView is not only a parallel debugger available on several Linux and Unix platforms. It also is a memory checker (MemoryScape and the TotalView plugin) as well as a reverse debugger, that is, you can roll back the execution of a program, even after it crashed (where it would be useless with a standard debugger like GDB).
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Thanks to the Numpy mailing list (more specially Stéfan van der Waltz and David Cournapeau), I’ve found a new Project Management Software, Redmine. Now, I needed to set it up without an access to the Internet, and as I didn’t have ana ccess to a MySQL server, I used SQLite as a DB backend.
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Like other programming models, there are some patterns in selecting the right parallel solution when it comes to designing a parallel application. This is what this book is about. The solutions may be obvious, but patterns aften are.
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