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We describe an extension of the Spin model checker that allows us to take advantage of the increasing number of cpu-cores available on standard desktop systems. Our main target is to speed up the verification process for safety properties, the mode used most frequently, but we also describe a small modification of the parallel search algorithm, called the piggyback algorithm, that is remarkably effective in catching violations for an interesting class of liveness properties at little cost.
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Holzmann, G.J. (2012). Parallelizing the Spin Model Checker. In: Donaldson, A., Parker, D. (eds) Model Checking Software. SPIN 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7385. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31759-0_12
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