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Catalogue › 2017

painless

Ludovic Le Frioux, Souheib Baarir, Julien Sopena, Fabrice Kordon
solverMapleparallel3rd SAT+UNSAT · parallel track 2017
licenceGPL-3.0MIT
can doSATUNSATparallelgzip input
statusVerifiedbuildsReady on Docker Hub 285 pulls of satex/painless, all tags

Awards

Licence

copyleft (GPL) Components under different licences: the strictest one rules the whole. You can use and modify it freely, but a program you redistribute with this solver inside must be GPL too, with its sources.

Read from licence file painless-maplecomsps/LICENSE, painless-maplecomsps/mapleCOMSPS/LICENSE; this summary is informative, the licence text prevails. Corrections welcome by pull request.

Pull it from Docker and run it

docker pull satex/painless:2017
docker run --rm -v $PWD:/data satex/painless:2017 instance.cnf

No build needed: the image is published on Docker Hub (checked 2026-09-25). Mount the directory that holds your instance on /data; the proof file is optional and not produced by this solver. Its full provenance is kept: the archived sources, the pinned build environment and the recipe are all listed below, and satex build painless:2017 rebuilds the same image on your own machine if you would rather not trust ours (slower, same solver).

Download the sources painless.zip, the competition submission as archived by SAT Heritage, to build it yourself with the recipe below. The Zenodo record holding the archives of this year was downloaded 1 324 times (Zenodo counts per record, not per file).

Licence
GPL-3.0, MIT (licence file painless-maplecomsps/LICENSE, painless-maplecomsps/mapleCOMSPS/LICENSE)
Image
satex/painless:2017
Command
./painless-maplecomsps FILECNF
Compressed input
read natively

How it is built

Recipe
builder generic/v1
Builder
generic/v1
Environment
debian:9.1
Sources
painless.zip

Last verification

Run on 2026-09-15.

Build

build-environmentok
builder-base-imageok
compileok
docker-engineok
image-assembleok
runtime-baseok
runtime-base-imageok
runtime-dependenciesok
source-downloadok
source-extractok

Tests

launchok
sat-gzip-modelok
sat-gzip-resultokSAT
sat-gzip-terminationokSAT
sat-modelok
sat-resultokSAT
sat-terminationokSAT
unsat-proofskipunsupported
unsat-resultokUNSAT
unsat-terminationokUNSAT