Using the File > New Program command
This tip describes changes made to TotalView at version 7.1
After you select the File > New Program command from either the Root or Process Window, TotalView displays its File > New Program dialog box:
(If you type totalview from a shell prompt, TotalView automatically displays this dialog box.) While this may look a lot simpler than the dialog box it replaces, there's now a lot more power. Here's an overview:
- The pulldown list on the left in this figure is displaying Start a new process. Other choices are: Attach to a new process and Open a core file.
- The on host pulldown list shows the systems you're attached to and also allows you to add additional hosts. In addition to being able to start jobs on these systems, the list displayed when you select Attach to a new process shows the processes running on that system. (While you could do this in older versions, the way you did it was very obscure.)
- We now remember programs you've debugged. Select one of these programs from the Program pulldown list. We also remember some of the attributes set for that program, so you don't have to do as much work getting started as you did in previous versions.
- The Arguments and Standard I/O tabs let you specify the same information that you can still specify using the Process > Startup Parameters command. It's duplicated here as a convenience.
- The new Parallel tab makes it easier to start MPI and poe programs.
Future tips will discuss this page and MPI startup.
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