SPS-Parallelism + SETHEO = SPTHEO

  • Authors:
  • Christian B. Suttner

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Arcisstr. 21, D-80290 München. e-mail: suttner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper describes the parallel automated theorem prover SPTHEO, a parallelization of the sequential first-order theorem prover SETHEO. The parallelization is based on the SPS-model (Static Partitioning with Slackness) for parallel search, an approach that minimizes the processor-to-processor communication. This model allows efficient computations on hardware with weak communication performance, such as workstation networks. SPTHEO offers the utilization of both OR- and independent-AND parallelism. In this paper, a detailed description and evaluation of the OR-parallel part are given.