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NDetermin: inferring nondeterministic sequential specifications for parallelism correctness

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Jacob Burnim,

Tayfun Elmas,

George Necula,

Koushik SenAuthors Info & Claims

PPoPP '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

Pages 329 - 330

https://doi.org/10.1145/2145816.2145879

Published: 25 February 2012 Publication History

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Nondeterministic Sequential (NDSeq) specifications have been proposed as a means for separating the testing, debugging, and verifying of a program's parallelism correctness and its sequential functional correctness. In this work, we present a technique that, given a few representative executions of a parallel program, combines dynamic data flow analysis and Minimum-Cost Boolean Satisfiability (MinCostSAT) solving for automatically inferring a likely NDSeq specification for the parallel program. For a number of Java benchmarks, our tool NDetermin infers equivalent or stronger NDSeq specifications than those previously written manually.

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J. Burnim, T. Elmas, G. Necula, and K. Sen. NDetermin: Inferring nondeterministic sequential specifications for parallelism correctness. Technical Report UCB/EECS-2011--143, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Dec 2011.

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J. Burnim, T. Elmas, G. Necula, and K. Sen. NDSeq: Runtime checking for nondeterministic sequential specifications of parallel correctness. In Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2011.

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PPoPP '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

February 2012

352 pages

ISBN:9781450311601

DOI:10.1145/2145816

General Chair:
J. Ramanujam
Louisiana State University, USA
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P. Sadayappan
The Ohio State University, USA

ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 47, Issue 8
PPOPP '12
August 2012
334 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/2370036
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Published: 25 February 2012

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