Valgrind#

Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use Valgrind to build new tools.

Read more about Valgrind on their website.

Licensing#

Valgrind is Open Source / Free Software, and is freely available under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

The Valgrind module on the HPC#

The Valgrind module can be loaded into your environment with the following command:

$ module add valgrind

The Valgrind module is available on ARC3:

System

Version

Command

ARC3

valgrind 3.12.0

module add valgrind/3.12.0