Graph-Based Algorithms for Boolean Function Manipulation
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Implementation of an efficient parallel BDD package
DAC '96 Proceedings of the 33rd annual Design Automation Conference
Parallel breadth-first BDD construction
PPOPP '97 Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Reachability analysis using partitioned-ROBDDs
ICCAD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Automated parallelization of discrete state-space generation
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on dynamic load balancing
Model checking
Binary decision diagrams on network of workstation
ICCD '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Computer Design, VLSI in Computers and Processors
BDDNOW: A Parallel BDD Package
FMCAD '98 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
Saturation: An Efficient Iteration Strategy for Symbolic State-Space Generation
TACAS 2001 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Achieving Scalability in Parallel Reachability Analysis of Very Large Circuits
CAV '00 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Petri Net Analysis Using Boolean Manipulation
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
Parallelizing the Murphi Verifier
CAV '97 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
INFORMS Journal on Computing
A data parallel algorithm for Boolean function manipulation
FRONTIERS '95 Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation (Frontiers'95)
QEST '04 Proceedings of the The Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, First International Conference
Sequential and distributed model checking of Petri nets
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) - Special section on parallel and distributed model checking
Logic and stochastic modeling with SMART
Performance Evaluation - Modelling techniques and tools for computer performance evaluation
Efficient symbolic state-space construction for asynchronous systems
ICATPN'00 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Application and theory of petri nets
TACAS'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems
A dynamic firing speculation to speedup distributed symbolic state-space generation
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
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The saturation strategy for symbolic state-space generation is particularly effective for globally-asynchronous locally-synchronous systems. A distributed version of saturation, SaturationNOW, uses the overall memory available on a network of workstations to effectively spread the memory load, but its execution is essentially sequential. To achieve true parallelism, we explore a speculative firing prediction, where idle workstations work on predicted future event firing requests. A naive approach where all possible firings may be explored a priori, given enough idle time, can result in excessive memory requirements. Thus, we introduce a history-based approach for firing prediction that recognizes firing patterns and explores only firings conforming to these patterns. Experiments show that our heuristic improves the runtime and has a small memory overhead.