Parallel Model Checking With Lazy Cycle Detection - MCLCD

Rodrigo Tacla Saad (1) , Silvano Dal Zilio (1) , Bernard Berthomieu (1)

1 LAAS - Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes

In this work, we present new algorithms for exhaustive parallel model checking that are as efficient as possible, but also ''friendly'' with respect to the work-sharing policies that are used for the state space generation (e.g. a work-stealing strategy): at no point do we impose a restriction on the way work is shared among the processors. This includes both the construction of the state space as the detection of cycles in parallel, which is is one of the key points of performance for the evaluation of more complex formulas.

Keywords: Formal Methods; Model Checking; Parallel algorithms

Domains: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [cs.DC]

Rodrigo Tacla Saad, Silvano Dal Zilio, Bernard Berthomieu. Parallel Model Checking With Lazy Cycle Detection - MCLCD. 2011. ⟨hal-00669752v2⟩