Armada: Low-Effort Verification of High-Performance Concurrent Programs
Safely writing high-performance concurrent programs is notoriously difficult. To aid developers, we introduce Armada, a language and tool designed to formally verify such programs with relatively little effort. Via a C-like language and a small-step, state-machine-based semantics, Armada gives developers the flexibility to choose arbitrary memory layout and synchronization primitives so they are never constrained in their pursuit of performance. To reduce developer effort, Armada leverages SMT-powered automation and a library of powerful reasoning techniques, including rely-guarantee, TSO elimination, reduction, and alias analysis. All these techniques are proven sound, and Armada can be soundly extended with additional strategies over time. Using Armada, we verify four concurrent case studies and show that we can achieve performance equivalent to that of unverified code.
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10:40 - 12:00 | Verification I PLDI Research Papers at PLDI Research Papers live stream Chair(s): Stephen N. FreundWilliams College | ||
10:40 20mTalk | Verifying Concurrent Search Structure Templates PLDI Research Papers Siddharth KrishnaMicrosoft Research, Cambridge, Nisarg PatelNew York University, USA, Dennis ShashaNew York University, USA, Thomas WiesNew York University, USA | ||
11:00 20mTalk | Armada: Low-Effort Verification of High-Performance Concurrent Programs PLDI Research Papers Jacob R. LorchMicrosoft Research, USA, Yixuan ChenUniversity of Michigan, USA / Yale University, USA, Manos KapritsosUniversity of Michigan, USA, Bryan ParnoCarnegie Mellon University, USA, Shaz QadeerNovi, USA, Upamanyu SharmaUniversity of Michigan, USA, James R. WilcoxCertora, USA, Xueyuan ZhaoCarnegie Mellon University, USA DOI | ||
11:20 20mTalk | Decidable Verification under a Causally Consistent Shared Memory PLDI Research Papers | ||
11:40 20mTalk | Inductive Sequentialization of Asynchronous Programs PLDI Research Papers Bernhard KraglIST Austria, Constantin EneaUniversity of Paris Diderot, France, Thomas A. HenzingerIST Austria, Austria, Suha Orhun MutluergilIRIF, France / University of Paris, France / CNRS, France, Shaz QadeerNovi, USA |