Adding Benchmarking Capabilities to PICML: User Guide

Platform Independent Component Modeling Language (or PICML, as it will be called hereafter) is a graphical modeling language for the building blocks of component applications, that is, applications that are built on top of component middleware. It isn’t intended to represent, or conform to the specification of, any particular kind of middleware or any particular vendor’s product. Rather, it’s an environment in which to design and modify component applications in a way that’s technology-neutral, in a way that can be translated into the middleware flavor of your choice. One such translator has already been written, and is described in detail at the end of this document. More are in the works. PICML itself was designed using the Generic Modeling Environment (GME), a powerful modeling tool developed at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University. Models in PICML are also constructed using GME (I told you it was powerful), since PICML itself can be registered with an installed copy of GME and then selected from a list of modeling languages when starting a new model project. Documentation, download and other information can be found on the GME web page at: http://www.isis.vanderbilt. edu/Projects/gme/ This document pertains to adding benchmarking capabilities to PICML and discusses benchmark generation from higher level models. Using the benchmarking code, metrics such as roundtrip latency and throughput can be measured. This tool is designed as a helper tool and interacts with other tools such as OCML (Options Configuration Modeling Language) and PICML (deployment plan evaluation). These tools are a part of a larger tool-suite called Component Synthesis with Model Integrated Computing CoSMIC. This document does not deal with the motivation for the development of this capability, rather describes a step-wise process of adding and composing simple benchmarks using PICML models.