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Efficient Large-Scale Model Checking

Authors: Kees Verstoep, Henri E. Bal, Jiri Barnat, and Lubos Brim

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8332, Distributed Verification and Grid Computing (2008)

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Model checking is a popular technique to systematically and automatically verify system properties. Unfortunately, the well-known state explosion problem often limits the extent to which it can be applied to realistic specifications, due to the huge resulting memory requirements. Distributed memory model checkers exist, but have thus far only been evaluated on small-scale clusters, with mixed results. We examine one well-known distributed model checker in detail, and show how a number of additional optimizations in its runtime system enable it to efficiently check very demanding problem instances on a large-scale, multi-core compute cluster. We analyze the impact of the distributed algorithms employed, the problem instance characteristics and network overhead. Finally, we show that the model checker can even obtain good performance in a high-bandwidth computational grid environment.

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Kees Verstoep, Henri E. Bal, Jiri Barnat, and Lubos Brim. Efficient Large-Scale Model Checking. In Distributed Verification and Grid Computing. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8332, pp. 1-15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{verstoep_et_al:DagSemProc.08332.4,
  author =	{Verstoep, Kees and Bal, Henri E. and Barnat, Jiri and Brim, Lubos},
  title =	{{Efficient Large-Scale Model Checking}},
  booktitle =	{Distributed Verification and Grid Computing},
  pages =	{1--15},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{8332},
  editor =	{Henri E. Bal and Lubos Brim and Martin Leucker},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08332.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-16309},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.08332.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed model checking, Grid-based model checking}
}

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