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SIGmA: GPU Accelerated Simplification of SAT Formulas

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Integrated Formal Methods (IFM 2019)

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We present SIGmA (SAT sImplification on GPU Architectures), a preprocessor to accelerate SAT solving that runs on NVIDIA GPUs. We discuss the tool, focussing on its full functionality and how it can be used in combination with state-of-the-art SAT solvers. SIGmA performs various types of simplification, such as variable elimination, subsumption elimination, blocked clause elimination and hidden redundancy elimination. We study the effectiveness of our tool when applied prior to SAT solving. Overall, for our large benchmark set of problems, SIGmA enables MiniSat and Lingeling to solve many problems in less time compared to applying the SatElite preprocessor.

This work is part of the GEARS project with project number TOP2.16.044, which is (partly) financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the GeForce Titan Xp’s used for this research.

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Notes

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    https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide.

  2. 2.

    See https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/SATLIB/benchm.html.

  3. 3.

    See http://www.satcompetition.org.

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    Tables with all the data are available at http://gears.win.tue.nl/software.

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Osama, M., Wijs, A. (2019). SIGmA: GPU Accelerated Simplification of SAT Formulas. In: Ahrendt, W., Tapia Tarifa, S. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34968-4_29

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