Creating a Parallel Simulation Process Flow

You can create parallel simulation process flows to specify components that are allowed to execute at the same time (in parallel) during the execution of the model. The components that execute in parallel must be child components of the same process component—in other words, they must be at the same level of the model hierarchy.

Isight may or may not execute the parallel components at the same time, depending on the available system resources. If the components must run at the same time because they communicate with each other during execution, you must place them into a co-simulation group.

Note: You can view an existing parallel simulation process flow in an actual sample problem by viewing the AirplaneSizingDOE.zmf file in the <Isight_install_directory>\<operating_system>\examples\models\applications\AirplaneSizingDOE directory.

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Creating a Co-Simulation Process Flow

  1. From the Design Gateway, select the model that you want to configure.

  2. Drag any component into the area below a process component.

    In the following example, an Excel component has been added to the model under the Compute all Beam Elements Loop component .



  3. Click the Sim-flow Link button.

  4. Click the Start icon to the left of the process component’s subflow.

    In the above example you would click the Start icon to the left of the Compute all Beam Elements Loop component’s subflow.

  5. Drag the mouse pointer to the newly added component, and release the mouse button.

    In this example you would move the mouse pointer to the Excel component, and release the mouse button.

    Isight creates a partial parallel simulation process flow as shown in the following example.



  6. Click the newly added component, drag the mouse pointer to the Stop icon to the right of the process component’s subflow, and release the mouse button.

    In this example you would drag the mouse pointer to the Stop icon to the right of the two Script components .

    Isight creates the parallel simulation process flow as shown in the following example.



  7. If desired, add additional components to the parallel simulation process flow by dragging and dropping the components on the simulation process flow arrows on either side of the newly added parallel simulation process flow.

    You can remove simulation process flow arrows from the Sim-flow tab canvas by right-clicking the arrow that you want to delete, and selecting Delete.

  8. If desired, save the model.