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PicoSAT

Armin Biere · version 965
solverotherv965
licenceMIT
can doSAT/UNSAT (declared)
statusNot run yetbuildsNot on Docker Hub yet 431 pulls of satex/picosat, all tags

Notes

Last release of the PicoSAT series; the 2007 competition ran an earlier one.

Licence

permissive You can use it, modify it and ship it in your own software, commercial or not, as long as you keep the copyright notices.

Read from Permission notice of the archive, in the form of the MIT licence, signed Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University; this summary is informative, the licence text prevails. Corrections welcome by pull request.

Build it and run it

pip install satex && satex build picosat:biere
docker run --rm -v $PWD:/data satex/picosat:biere instance.cnf

This image is not on Docker Hub yet (checked 2026-11-13): the images are pushed in batches, and some entries cannot be built. Until then, satex build makes it on your machine from the archived sources and the recipe below, and the run command is the same. 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 picosat:biere rebuilds the same image on your own machine if you would rather not trust ours (slower, same solver).

Download the sources picosat-965.tar.gz, the competition submission as archived by SAT Heritage, to build it yourself with the recipe below.

Licence
MIT (Permission notice of the archive, in the form of the MIT licence, signed Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University)
Image
satex/picosat:biere
Command
./picosat FILECNF
Compressed input
decompressed by the image
Event
Releases of Armin Biere

How it is built

Recipe
builder generic/v1
Builder
generic/v1
Environment
debian:stretch-slim
Sources
picosat-965.tar.gz

Last verification

No recorded run.