A graphical interface for modeling a hierarchy of performance models for software systems

Author

Ammar, Reda A. ; Pe, Carolyn T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Connecticut Univ., Storrs, CT, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

4-7 Nov 1990

Firstpage

646

Lastpage

651

Abstract

A computer-aided performance evaluation (CAPE) tool to support the evaluation of graphical, hierarchical performance models used to design parallel/distributed real-time software systems is presented. It is a graphical interface for CAPE environments called GRAPE. GRAPE supports five different performance models: a queuing model, a state model, a computation structure model, a data flow model and a statistical model. Each of these models is contained in a separate subsystem, but they are linked together to represent multilevel hierarchical modeling, allowing the user to integrate the relationships between different performance metrics at different levels of analysis. The overall structure and graphic environment of GRAPE and the five models are described

Keywords

digital simulation; distributed processing; graphical user interfaces; parallel processing; performance evaluation; programming environments; real-time systems; CAPE; GRAPE; computation structure model; computer-aided performance evaluation; data flow model; digital simulation; distributed software systems; graphical user interface; hierarchical performance models; parallel software systems; programming environment; queuing model; state model; statistical model; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Data flow computing; Distributed computing; Graphics; Measurement; Performance analysis; Pipelines; Real time systems; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1990. Conference Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

0-87942-597-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1990.142193

Filename

142193