Performance Engineering and Component Software

The above important performance-related aspects of component-based scientific computing motivate fundamental performance engineering questions that are examined specifically in our research:

• How are the performance of components and component compositions evaluated?
• How can this evaluation be done robustly given the diversity of component (component composition) types and implementations?
• How are component performance data represented and made available to the component framework as a whole?
• How can the performance of component compositions be modeled?
• What restrictions does a component approach place on performance engineering, and can the component architecture, framework infrastructure, and technologies be leveraged to implement and deliver performance engineering support more effectively?
• Will the integration of performance engineering technology lead to a quantifiable improvement in performance of component-based scientific computing and how will this be demonstrated?
• Is it possible to develop a component performance engineering solution that is general purpose and can be applied in many scientific computing contexts?

We address these questions from the perspective of the technology to deliver performance-engineered solutions for scientific computing environments.