Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of the parallelization of the construction of explicit constraints or limit-state functions using support vector machines. These explicit boundaries have proven to be beneficial for design optimization and reliability assessment, especially for problems with large computational times, discontinuities, or binary outputs. In addition to th...

Parallelizing large sequential programs is known as a challenging problem. This paper focuses on problems encountered during parallelization process of different flood models and on the approaches used for solving them. The approaches are focused on reducing development time, which can help programmers make a parallel version of existing sequential programs within a short time.