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MC-Checker: Detecting Memory Consistency Errors in MPI One-Sided Applications

SESSION: MPI

EVENT TYPE: Papers

TIME: 11:30AM - 12:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Ron Brightwell

AUTHOR(S):Zhezhe Chen, James Dinan, Zhen Tang, Pavan Balaji, Hua Zhong, Jun Wei, Tao Huang, Feng Qin

ROOM:393-94-95

ABSTRACT:

One-sided communication decouples data movement and synchronization by providing support for asynchronous reads and updates of distributed shared data. While such interfaces can be extremely efficient, they also impose challenges in properly performing asynchronous accesses to shared data.

This paper presents MC-Checker, a new tool that detects memory consistency errors in MPI one-sided applications. MC-Checker first performs online instrumentation and captures relevant dynamic events, such as one-sided communications and load/store operations. MC-Checker then performs analysis to detect memory consistency errors. When found, errors are reported along with useful diagnostic information. Experiments indicate that MC-Checker is effective at detecting and diagnosing memory consistency bugs in MPI one-sided applications, with low overhead, ranging from 24.6% to 71.1%, with an average of 45.2%.

Chair/Author Details:

Ron Brightwell (Chair) - Sandia National Laboratories

Zhezhe Chen - Twitter

James Dinan - Intel Corporation

Zhen Tang - Chinese Academy of Sciences

Pavan Balaji - Argonne National Laboratory

Hua Zhong - Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jun Wei - Chinese Academy of Sciences

Tao Huang - Chinese Academy of Sciences

Feng Qin - Ohio State University

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