Salah Eddine Saidi
IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Nicolas Pernet
IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Yves Sorel
INRIA, Paris, France
Abir Ben Khaled
IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp16124106Published in: The First Japanese Modelica Conferences, May 23-24, Tokyo, Japan
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 124:14, p. 106-112
Published: 2016-05-18
ISBN: 978-91-7685-749-6
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The design of cyber-physical systems is a complex process and relies on the simulation of the system behavior before its deployment. Co-simulation allows system designers to simulate a whole system composed of a number of interconnected subsystems. Traditionally, these models are modeled by experts of different fields using different tools, and then integrated into one environment to perform simulation at the system-level. This results in complex and heavy co-simulations and requires adequate solutions and tools in order to reduce the execution time. Unfortunately, most modeling tools perform only mono-core simulations and do not take advantage of the omnipresent multi-core processors. This paper addresses the problem of efficient parallelization of co-simulations. It presents a multi-core scheduling heuristic for parallelizing FMI-compliant models on multi-core processors. The limitations of this heuristic are highlighted and two solutions for dealing with them are presented. The obtained speed-up using each of these solutions is illustrated and discussed for further improvements.
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