• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.395-406
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• 2007

Races in programs with OpenMP directives must be detected for debugging, because they may cause unexpected result by non-deterministic executions. But, Thread Checker of Intel corporation, a well-known existing tool for detecting the races, is not practical because this tool does not verify the existence of races and is known that the cost for race detection is too big. This paper presents a web-based tool which verify the existence of races with an optimal functionality and performance using the results from the property analysis of OpenMP program as well as the user requirements. Our tool is proved to be practical in the aspect of functionality and performance by experiments using synthetic programs, because the suggested tool can verify the existence of race and shows O(n) as the ratio of time consumption while Thread Checker can not verify the existence of race and shows $O(n^2)$ as the ratio, where n is the number of total accesses.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.301-305
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• 2008

Races must be detected for debugging OpenMP programs with directives, because they may cause unintended nondeterministic results of programs. Intel Thread Checker, an existing tool that can detects races, can not verify the existence of races and is often time-consuming and tends to require large space. To solve these problems, we developed a tool that verifies the existence of races using user requirements and analyzed model of programs. However, the tool does not have optimal performance in programs which have no synchronization for interthread coordination. This paper presents an optimal tool that applies the optimum labeling and protocol for program models without interthread coordination. For synthetic programs without interthread synchronization, the tool verifies races over 250 times faster than the previous tool on the average, even if the maximum parallelism increases in every case of which the number of total accesses are identical.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.478-480
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• 2003

공유메모리 기반의 OpenMP 프로그램에서 발생하는 경합은 의도하지 않은 비결정적 수행 결과를 초래하므로 효과적으로 경합을 탐지하는 도구가 필요하다. 본 연구는 OpenMP 프로그램의 경합탐지를 위한 Intel 사의 Thread Checker를 내포병렬성의 여부와 접근사건들의 분포 형태를 기준으로 개발한 커널프로그램 집합을 이용하여 분석한 결과로서, 스레드들을 순서적으로 수행하면서 내포된 스레드를 부모 스레드와 동일한 스레드로 간주하고 적어도 하나의 읽기와 쓰기 접근사건들을 유지하면서 수행중에 경합을 탐지하는 도구임을 보인다. 이 도구는 접근사건의 발생 시에 이전 접근사건들과의 경합 여부를 검사한 후에 그 접근사건의 유지 여부를 결정하므로, 논리적 병행성 관계를 반영하지 못하는 내포된 스레드가 존재하지 않으면 경합의 존재를 검증한다.