Paper: PARTHENON: a parallel theorem prover for nonHorn clauses (at LICS 1989)
Authors: Bose, S. Clarke, E.M. Long, D.E. Michaylov, S.Abstract
A parallel resolution theorem prover, called Parthenon, that handles first-order logic is described. Parthenon is apparently the first general-purpose theorem prover to be developed for a multiprocessor. The system is based on a modification of D.H.D. Warren's SRI model (Int. Symp. on Logic Prog., pp.92-101, 1987) for OR-parallelism and implements a variant of D.W. Loveland's (J. ACM, vol.15, pp.236-51, 1968) model elimination procedure. It has been evaluated on various shared memory multiprocessors, including a 16-processor Encore Multimax. The authors have found that typical theorem-proving problems exhibit a great deal of potential parallelism. Parthenon has been able to exploit much of this parallelism, producing both impressive absolute run times and near-linear speed-up curves
BibTeX
@InProceedings{BoseClarkeLongMicha-PARTHENONaparallelt,
author = {Bose, S. and Clarke, E.M. and Long, D.E. and Michaylov, S.},
title = {PARTHENON: a parallel theorem prover for nonHorn clauses},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Symp. on Logic in Computer Science, {LICS} 1989},
year = 1989,
editor = {Rohit Parikh},
month = {June},
pages = {80--89},
location = {Pacific Grove, CA, USA},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press}
}