Different directions in parallel and distributed model checking (invited talk)

Abstract Model checking procedures have already proved useful for system verification. They are successfully applied to find subtle bugs in complex system. However, they are limited to medium size systems because of their high space requirements. Many approaches to overcome this problem have been suggested. In recent years there has been a growing interest in parallelizing the model checking problem, thus obtaining greater space capacity and computation power. In this talk we will survey some of the approaches to parallelizing different aspects of model checking. We will consider algorithms that handle reachability, as well as LTL, CTL and Mu-calculus model checking. We will mention symbolic as well as explicit algorithms. We will also refer to parallelizing operations on BDDs, which is the data structure used in symbolic model checking.