Development Approach

Based on the methdology presented above, this section presents an approach to the development of performance engineering technology for scientific component software. Our focus is on the component software and frameworks being developed in the DOE Center for Component Technology for Terascale Simulation Software (CCTTSS) [13]. Thus, our work is based on the CCA specification [1,12] and integrated with the existing CCA technologies. We describe our development approach in respect to five areas:

• component performance instrumentation and measurement
• performance of component connections
• performance monitoring
• component performance database and knowledge repository
• component performance modeling