Markus Frank

Performance Prediction for Multicore Systems

Multicore systems are a permanent part of our daily life. Regardless of whether we consider nowadays desktop PC's, notebooks or smartphones all devices running on multicore CPUs. To use these hardware features in an efficient way we need parallel enabled software. However, the development of such software is more complicated than developing sequential software.

To handle the rising complexity, it is necessary to develop software in an engineer-like way. In such a process Software Architects plan and analyse software designs on a model level.
Software Architects can use tools like Palladio to simulate and analyse early phase software designs. Unfortunately, current approaches and tools cannot consider multicore systems.
Therefore, we aim in this project to find performance prediction methods for multicore systems.