Abstract: 
CAMeL/PVM: An Open, Distributed CAE Environment for Modelling 
and Simulating Mechatronic Systems 

Peter Klingebliel, Ralf Diekmann, Ulrich Lefarth, Markus Fischer
and Juergen Seuss: 

Mechatronics Laboratory Paderborn and Department of Computer Science, 
University of Paderborn, Germany

CAMeL (Computer-Aided Mechatronic Laboratory) is an open CAE design 
environment for the computer-aided modelling and simulation of complex 
mechatronic systems. CAMeL consists of a number of tools that, on the 
basis of the ADA tasking concept, can be combined to form any desired 
complex system. Communication between the tools is established by passing
of messages via channels. This paper will present CAMeL/PVM, a Unix-based 
extension of CAMeL to a system of processes that may run on a workstation 
cluster. On top of the PVM message-passing environment the required 
functionality for communication and process management have been implemented 
and procedures for automatic load balancing integrated. CAMeL/PVM allows 
the use of heterogeneous workstation  clusters and can easily be extended 
by further modules implemented in any programming language.