Paradyn Release 3.3 Manuals

Manuals are available in PDF ("acrobat", .pdf suffix) and compressed PostScript (GNU zip'd, .ps.gz suffix) formats. If you need another formats, E-mail us your requirements. For efficient download, GNU-zip'd tar archive files of all of the Paradyn (and DyninstAPI) manuals from the current release are also available: Certain manuals contain color figures with details which may not print well as black and white or gray scale output.

Paradyn Documentation Overview .pdf   (ps)

An index and overview of the Paradyn manuals and associated documentation, similar in content to this Web page. (Note that PDF document cross-referencing requires all referenced documents downloaded and saved with their original names in the same directory, as with the archives provided.) 

Paradyn Installation Guide .pdf  (ps)

If you haven't yet installed Paradyn on your system, or if you are installing a new release, this is the document to read first. It tells you how to obtain the latest version of Paradyn and install it on your system. 

Paradyn Tutorial .pdf  (ps)

After you have installed Paradyn on your system and are ready to use it, this is the manual to read. It contains a few short tutorials, based on sequential C and Fortran MPI test programs distributed with Paradyn, that you can step through, and which should give you a feel on how to use Paradyn with your own programs. 

Paradyn User's Guide .pdf  (ps)

The main documentation for Paradyn users. Details chapters on running programs, using Paradyn's performance monitoring features, navigating its user interface, etc. After you've read the Installation Guide and worked through the Tutorial, this is the document you'll be referring to most often. 

MDL Programmer's Guide .pdf  (ps)

If you wish to write new performance metrics for Paradyn to measure your applications with, reading this guide may save you lots of frustration and time. 

Visi Programmer's Guide .pdf  (ps)

If you wish to interface your own visualizers (visis) with Paradyn, you'll need to read this document. Only those wishing to customize Paradyn in this way need this document. 

Paradyn Developer's Guide .pdf  (ps)

This guide is intended to help developers who want to understand the Paradyn source code. 

Instrumentation of Multithreaded Applications .pdf  (ps)

This document describes Paradyn's approach to dynamic instrumentation of multi-threaded applications and per-thread execution metrics, as well as how to use the thread-aware versions of the Paradyn daemon and runtime library with applications based on Solaris threads on SPARC Solaris. 

DyninstAPI Programmer's Guide .pdf  (ps)

This manual documents the DyninstAPI package (dynamic instrumentation programming interface) and how it can be used to develop tools which interact with and control subject programs. The DyninstAPI is a spin-off from Paradyn, hence their combined distribution, though they can be used independently of each other. (This is a mirror of the manual original available fromhttp://www.dyninst.org) 

Dyner User's Guide .pdf  (ps)

This manual documents the Dyner Tcl-based interactive command-line tool based on the DyninstAPI library. (This is a mirror of the manual original available from http://www.dyninst.org) 

DyninstAPI Test Suite Guide .pdf   (ps)

This manual documents the test suite for the DyninstAPI library. 
Last modified: Tue Mar 20 11:16:18 CST 2001 by pcroth@cs.wisc.edu