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Stability of Experiments

The nondeterminism introduced by parallelism gives rise to the question of how repeatable the experiments are. It is indeed true that ROO, unlike OTTER, does not run the same way every time, even with the exact same input file and the same number of processes. In this section we report on some experiments to measure, at least on a limited sample of examples, the extent of this problem. We do this by running the very same problem ten times with the same number of processes, and comparing the results.


Karen D. Toonen
1998-11-19