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Boosting the Software Quality of Parallel Programming Using Logical Means

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Parallel programming can be realized as a main tool to improve performance. A main model for programming parallel machines is the single instruction multiple data (SIMD) model of parallelism.

This paper presents an axiomatic semantics for SIMD programs. This semantics is useful for designating and attesting partial correctness properties for SIMD programs and is a generalization of the separation’s logical system (designed for sequential programs). The second contribution of this paper is an operational framework to conventionally define the semantics of SIMD programs. This framework has two sets of inference rules; for running a program on a single machine and for running a program on many machines concurrently. A detailed correctness proof for the presented logical system is presented using the proposed operational semantics. Also the paper presents a detailed example of a specification derivation in the proposed logical system.

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  1. College of Computer and Information Sciences, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Mohamed A. El-Zawawy

  2. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt

    Mohamed A. El-Zawawy

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El-Zawawy, M.A. (2015). Boosting the Software Quality of Parallel Programming Using Logical Means. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015. ICCSA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21413-9_8

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