Totalview® for HPC User Guide : PART I Introduction to Debugging with TotalView : Chapter 1 About TotalView : Tools for Multi-Threaded and Parallel Applications : Control Program Execution
Control Program Execution
Commands controlling execution operate on the current focus, or target -- either an individual thread or process, or a group of threads and processes. You can individually stop, start, step, and examine any thread or process, or perform these actions on a group.
Select the target of your action from the toolbar’s pulldown menu, Figure 12.
Figure 12 – Selecting a Target from the Toolbar Pulldown
You can also synchronize execution across threads or processes using a barrier point, which holds any threads or processes in a group until each reaches a particular point.
 
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Selecting a target (also called focus)
Setting process and thread focus using the CLI
Setting group focus
Finely controlling focus
Introduction to barrier points