Introduction

High Performance Computing (HPC) provides huge computational power to solve complex problems that are difficult to address using personal computers within a reasonable timeframe. Among the techniques that can be used to speed up simulations, are model partitioning (i.e. splitting a model into several parts) and parallel processing (also known as distributed computing).

HPC can be seen as an extension of the Parallel Processing feature on a much larger scale where the goal is still primarily to perform multiple case studies on a single model (even if more complex cases, for instance involving co-simulation, can be envisaged).