Semi-automatic parallelization of simulations with model transformation techniques

The popularity of parallel and distributed simulations (PADS) is increasing gradually, because they are one of the strongest techniques to simulate complex models in a scalable way. Thanks to PADS, high speedup values can be achieved and many of those complex models can be simulated in acceptable time periods. Despite this advantage, most of the engineering simulation developers cannot allocate their time to parallelize simulations, due to the limitation of development time. Moreover, employing PADS requires developers to have important amount of knowledge in parallel software development; but model developers who are not from software engineering discipline generally do not have to know how to develop PADS. On the other hand, running simulations in a non-parallel way causes enough number of experiments cannot be done because of the tight project deadlines. In this paper, a user-assisted parallelization method is proposed for simulations that have been implemented using model-based development approach.