Scalable parallel interval propagation for sparse constraint satisfaction problems

  • Authors:
  • Evgueni Petrov

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel, Russia

  • Venue:
  • PSI'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Perspectives of System Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Multi-core processors have been broadly available to the public in the last five years. Parallelism has become a common design feature for computational intensive algorithms. In this paper we present a parallel implementation of an algorithm called interval constraint propagation for solution of constraint satisfaction problems over real numbers. Unlike existing implementations of this algorithm, our implementation scales well to many CPU cores with shared memory for sparse constraint satisfaction problems. We present scalability data for a quad-core processor on a number of benchmarks for non-linear constraint solvers.