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
We can exploit hierarchical view of metaproblem and use PetaSIM to model the collection of "middle-tier" modules
Requires extension of linkset object to handle geographically extensive networks
Requires models of performance of modules which could be parallel simulations
Rather than support general case, consider two examples
Multimedia datastreams as in collaborative sessions
Dataflow linkage of a few computational / visualization / database modules
Their integration in "full" collaborative engineering