**Acknowledgements**

The author is grateful to Professor V. Korolev and Professor A. Borisov who read the manuscript and gave suggestions for its improvement and to Ph.D. student Andrey Chupakhin, who performed the entire cycle of experiments to evaluate the proposed method for predicting MPI program execution time.

Also, thanks to Marinа Trukhovа who helped a lot with shaping the text of this paper.
