Distributed disk-based algorithms for model checking very large Markov chains

Authors:
Alexander Bell;Boudewijn R. Haverkort
Affiliations:
Numerical Analysis and Computational Mechanics, Department for Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands;Design and Analysis of Communication Systems, Department for Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Venue:
Formal Methods in System Design
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In this paper we present data structures and distributed algorithms for CSL model checking-based performance and dependability evaluation. We show that all the necessary computations are composed of series or sums of matrix-vector products. We discuss sparse storage structures for the required matrices and present efficient sequential and distributed disk-based algorithms for performing these matrix-vector products. We illustrate the effectivity of our approach in a number of case studies in which continuous-time Markov chains (generated in a distributed way from stochastic Petri net specifications) with several hundreds of millions of states are solved on a workstation cluster with 26 dual-processor nodes. We show details about the memory consumption, the solution times, and the speedup. The distributed message-passing algorithms have been implemented in a tool called PARSECS, that also takes care of the distributed Markov chain generation and that can also be used for distributed CTL model checking of Petri nets.