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GPU-based parallelism for ASP-solving

Artificial Intelligence 2019-09-05 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Abstract

Answer Set Programming (ASP) has become, the paradigm of choice in the field of logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Thanks to the availability of efficient solvers, ASP has been successfully employed in a large number of application domains. The term GPU-computing indicates a recent programming paradigm aimed at enabling the use of modern parallel Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) for general purpose computing. In this paper we describe an approach to ASP-solving that exploits GPU parallelism. The design of a GPU-based solver poses various challenges due to the peculiarities of GPUs' software and hardware architectures and to the intrinsic nature of the satisfiability problem.

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@article{arxiv.1909.01786,
  title  = {GPU-based parallelism for ASP-solving},
  author = {Agostino Dovier and Andrea Formisano and Flavio Vella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01786},
  year   = {2019}
}

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