The CIVL Model Checker

About

CIVL is a framework encompassing…

• a programming language, CIVL-C, which adds to C a number of concurrency primitives, as well as the ability to define functions in any scope. Together, these features make for a very expressive concurrent language that can faithfully represent programs using various APIs and parallel languages, such as MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, and Chapel. CIVL-C also provides a number of primitives supporting verification.
• a model checker which uses symbolic execution to verify a number of safety properties of CIVL-C programs. The model checker can also be used to verify that two CIVL-C programs are functionally equivalent.
• a number of translators from various commonly-used concurrency languages/APIs to CIVL-C (currently, MPI, OpenMP, Pthreads, and CUDA).

Downloads & Links

• ​Latest stable release
• ​Latest unstable release
• ​Older releases
• ​CIVL Web App

Documentation

• Introduction and Quick Start
• CIVL-C Fundamentals
• Language Manual
• Libraries
• Command Line Interface
• Examples
• A Challenge Exercise for Twente

Publications

• ​Symbolic Execution and Deductive Verification Approaches to VerifyThis 2017 Challenges, Ziqing Luo and Stephen F. Siegel, ISoLA'18.
• ​Verifying Properties of Differentiable Programs, J. Hückelheim, Z. Luo, S.H.K. Narayanan, S.F. Siegel, and P.D. Hovland, SAS'18.
• ​Towards Self-Verification in Finite Difference Code Generation, J. Hückelheim, Z. Luo, F. Luporini, N. Kukreja, M. Lange, G. Gorman, S.F. Siegel, M. Dwyer, and P.D. Hovland, Correctness'17.
• ​CIVL Manual, M.B. Dwyer, J. Edenhofner, G. Gopalakrishnan, A. Marianiello, Z. Luo, Z. Rakamaric, M. Rogers, S.F. Siegel, M. Zheng, and T.K. Zirkel
• ​CIVL: The Concurrency Intermediate Verification Language, S.F. Siegel, M. Zheng, Z. Luo, T.K. Zirkel, A.V. Marianiello, J.G. Edenhofner, M.B. Dwyer and M.S. Rogers, SC'15.
• ​Verification of MPI programs using CIVL, Z. Luo, M. Zheng, and S.F. Siegel, EuroMPI'17.
• ​DOE Report of the HPC Correctness Summit, G. Gopalakrishnan, P.D. Hovland, C. Iancu, S. Krishnamoorthy, I. Laguna, R.A. Lethin, K. Sen, S.F. Siegel, and A. Solar-Lezama, DOE TechReport'17.
• ​CIVL Solutions to VerifyThis 2016 Challenges, Stephen F. Siegel, VerifyThis'16.
• ​CIVL: Applying a General Concurrency Verification Framework to C/Pthreads Programs Competition Contribution, M. Zheng, J.G. Edenhofner, Z. Luo, M.J. Gerrard, M.S. Rogers, M.B. Dwyer, and S.F. Siegel, TACAS'16
• ​CIVL: Formal Verification of Parallel Programs, M. Zheng, M.S. Rogers, Z. Luo, M.B. Dwyer, and S.F. Siegel, ASE'15.
• ​Tech Report: CIVL: The Concurrency Intermediate Verification Language, S.F. Siegel, M.B. Dwyer, G. Gopalakrishnan, Z. Luo, Z. Rakamaric, R. Thakur, M. Zheng, and T.K. Zirkel, Technical Report UD-CIS-2014/001.
• ​VSL Publication List

How to Cite CIVL

@Inproceedings{siegel-etal:2015:civl_sc,
  author = {Stephen F.\ Siegel and Manchun Zheng and Ziqing Luo and
            Timothy K.\ Zirkel and Andre V.\ Marianiello and John G.\ Edenhofner
            and Matthew B.\ Dwyer and Michael S.\ Rogers},
  title = {{CIVL}: The Concurrency Intermediate Verification Language},
  booktitle = {SC15: International Conference for High Performance
               Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Proceedings},
  series = {SC '15},
  year = {2015},
  month = {Nov},
  publisher = {IEEE Press},
  address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
  pages = {61:1-61:12}
}

Bug Reports

To report a bug in CIVL, send an email to civl-dev@googlegroups.com. Include as many details as possible, such as the CIVL command, source files (these may be attached), the CIVL version, and the output, including any error message.

Developers

• Current Developers: ​Stephen F. Siegel, Alex Wilton, and Wenhao Wu
• Previous Contributors: Matthew Dwyer, John Edenhofner, Mitchell Gerrard, Ziqing Luo, Andre Marianiello, Michael Rogers, Yihao Yan, Manchun Zheng and Timothy Zirkel

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License

CIVL is copyright from 2013 to 2023, Verified Software Laboratory, University of Delaware.

CIVL is distributed under the terms of the ​GNU General Public License v3. (See the directory licenses in the distribution for details.)