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Saarland University Computer Science

Parallel Search Made Simple

Christian Schulte

Technical Report, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 55 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117599, To appear., September 2000

Search in constraint programming is a time consuming task. Search can be speeded up by exploring subtrees of a search tree in parallel. This paper presents distributed search engines that achieve parallelism by distribution across networked computers. The main point of the paper is a simple design of the parallel search engine. Simplicity comes as an immediate consequence of clearly separating search, concurrency, and distribution. The obtained distributed search engines are simple yet offer substantial speedup on standard network computers.

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