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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTA.2002.9A.4.525

A Labeling Scheme for Efficient On-the-fly Detection of Race Conditions in Parallel Programs  

Park, So-Hee (경상대학교 대학원 컴퓨터과학과)
Woo, Jong-Jung (성신여자대학교 컴퓨터정보학부)
Bae, Jong-Min (경상대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Jun, Yong-Kee (경상대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartA / v.9A, no.4, 2002 , pp. 525-534 More about this Journal
Abstract
Race conditions, races in short, need to be detected for debugging parallel programs, because the races result in unintended non-deterministic executions. To detect the races in an execution of program, previous techniques use a centralized data structure which may incur serious bottleneck in generating concurrency information, or show inefficient time complexity which depends on the degree of nested parallelism in comparing any two of them. We propose a new labeling scheme in this paper, which is scalable in generating the concurrency information without bottleneck by using private data structure, and improves time complexity into constant in checking concurrency. The scalability and time efficiency therfore makes on-the-fly race detection efficient not only for programs with either shared-memory or message-passing, but also for programs with mixed model of the two.
Keywords
Race Condition; On-the-fly Detection; Labeling; Scalability; Efficiency;
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