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<h1><span class="section-number">12.1. </span>Parallel Debugging Tools<a class="headerlink" href="#parallel-debugging-tools" title="Permalink to this heading"></a></h1>
<p>There are two main categories of tools that can aid in
parallel debugging:</p>
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<li><p><strong>Debuggers:</strong> Both serial and parallel debuggers are useful. Serial
debuggers are what most programmers are used to (e.g.,
the GNU debugger, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gdb</span></code>), while
parallel debuggers can attach to all the individual processes in an
MPI job simultaneously, treating the MPI application as a single
entity. This can be an extremely powerful abstraction, allowing the
user to control every aspect of the MPI job, manually replicate race
conditions, etc.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Profilers:</strong> Tools that analyze your usage of MPI and display
statistics and meta information about your application’s run. Some
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collect the information and display it in a post mortem analysis.</p></li>
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