Authors: Prodan, Radu Fahringer, Thomas
Pages: 317
Publisher: Unknow
ISBN13: 9783540692614
In the last decade, the interest in computational Grids has increasingly grown in the scientific community as a means of enabling the application developers to aggregate resources scattered around the globe for solving large-scale scientific problems. As applications get larger, more complex and dynamic, the use of software tools becomes vital for tuning application parameters, identifying performance leaks, or detecting program defects. Extensive efforts within academia and industry over the last decade resulted in a large collection of tools for practical application engineering. Available tools of broad interest include program source and structure browsers, editors, static program analysers, performance predictors, optimising compilers, schedulers, execution control and monitoring environments, sequential and parallel debuggers (providing deadlock detection and deterministic replay mechanisms), check-pointers, data and execution visualisers, performance analysers, or various program tracers.