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Multi- and many-core hardware platforms are today widely accessible and used to significantly accelerate many computationally demanding tasks. In this paper we describe a parallel approach to solve Boolean Equation Systems (BESs) in the context of model checking. We focus on the applicability of state-of-the-art, shared-memory parallel hardware – multi-core CPUs and many-core GPUs – to speed up the resolution procedure for BESs. In this setting, we experimentally show the scalability and competitiveness of our approach, compared to an optimized sequential implementation, based on a large benchmark suite containing models of software systems and protocols from industry and academia.
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Ditter, A., Češka, M., Lüttgen, G. (2012). On Parallel Software Verification Using Boolean Equation Systems. In: Donaldson, A., Parker, D. (eds) Model Checking Software. SPIN 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7385. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31759-0_8
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