From A Coarse Grain Performance Estimator -- PetaSIM and a Hybrid Distributed Object Model for the IPG NASA Workshop on Performance Engineered Information Systems -- Sept 28-29 98. byGeoffrey C. Fox, Yuhong Wen, Wojtek Furmanski, Tom Haupt
Imagine engineer using applet to change system parameters interactively and examine new network/machine designs quickly -- easier to change system parameters than generate new applications -- so need to accumulate benchmark set