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Launching an MPI.NET Program in Visual Studio Visual Studio 2008 provides an MPI Cluster Debugger that allows one to launch and debug MPI applications from within Visual Studio, with the application itself running either locally or on a cluster. Prerequisites To debug an MPI.NET application in Visual Studio, you will need: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (with Service Pack 1) or newer with support for Remote Debugging installed MPI.NET Microsoft’s HPC Pack 2008 SDK or Compute Cluster Pack SDK Optional: Allinea’s DDTLite for Visual Studio Configuring the MPI Debugger The MPI Cluster Debugger works for both native applications and managed MPI applications, but there are several extra steps required to debug managed MPI.NET applications: Build your MPI.NET application in Debug mode. In this document, we’ll use the DatatypesTest test program from the MPI.NET source code as an example. From the Visual Studio menu bar, select File(Open(Project/Solution. In the Open Project dialog box, find and select the .exe for your program. Your new project will show up in the Solution Explorer. Right-click on the .exe file and select “Properties” to bring up the property page for this new project. In the property page, select the “Debugging” page under “Configuration Properties” and set the “Debugger to launch” combo box to the “MPI Cluster Debugger”. There are quite a few settings to change to configure the MPI debugger. They are: MPIRun command: Set this to the full path to the mpiexec.exe program, which comes as part of the HPC Pack 2008 SDK or Compute Cluster Pack SDK. MPIRun arguments: Any arguments you want to pass to mpiexec. In the screenshot below, we use “-n 2” to specify that we want to run two processes. MPIRun Working Directory: The directory from which the application will be run. Application Command: Full path to the application’s executable, including the name of the executable itself. MPIShim Location: The location of the mpishim.exe program, which is part of Visual