Next Generation Software: Prophesy: A Performance Modeling Framework for the Analysis of Complex Applications and Systems

EIA-9974960 Valerie TaylorNorthwestern University下一代软件：用于复杂应用程序和系统分析的性能建模框架该提案旨在开发一个性能框架（Prophesy），该框架有助于开发非常精细和粗粒度的应用程序分析性能模型，以了解现实的大型应用程序和计算机系统功能如何相互作用并影响性能。 此外，该项目将开发一个代数，它将确定系统组件和应用程序算法的基本性能模型应该如何组成，以反映在并行机，网格或GiBs平台上执行的应用程序的性能。该项目将在三个生产类应用程序中测试所开发的方法，一个包括可视化组件的科学应用程序，一个使用AMR算法的应用程序，和ASCI类应用程序。 在要建模的硬件架构中，复杂的HTMT架构包括在本研究中。 其结果将在系统级软硬件协同设计方面取得一些重要进展。 具体而言，所提出的工作将有利于计算系统设计人员，应用程序设计人员和编译器开发人员在构建各自的系统类。

EIA-9974960Valerie TaylorNorthwestern UniversityNext Generation Software: A Performance Modeling Framework for the Analysis of Complex Applications and SystemsThis proposal aims to develop a performance framework (Prophesy) that facilitates the development of very-fine as well as coarse-grain analytical performance models of applications, to allow understanding of how realist, large applications and computer system features interact and affect performance. Furthermore the project will develop an algebra which will identify how elementary performance models of system components and application algorithms should be composed to reflect the performance of the application executing on parallel machines, Grids or GiBs platforms.The project will test the developed methods in three production class applications, a scientific application including a visualization component, an application using AMR algorithms, and an ASCI class application. Among the hardware architectures to be modeled, the complex HTMT architecture is included in this study. The resulting will make some important advances in the system level hardware-software codesign. Specifically the proposed work will benefit computing system designers, application designers, and compiler developers in building their respective class of systems.