Simulation-driven Evaluation of Cyberinfrastructure Systems

Most scientific breakthroughs and discoveries are now preconditioned on performing complex processing of vast amounts of data as conveniently, reliably, and efficiently as possible. This requires software systems to automate the processing on these resources, an enormous amount of effort has been invested in producing such "cyberinfrastructure" software systems. This project transforms the way in which these systems are evaluated, so that their capabilities can be developed and evolved judiciously. This project uses simulation to transform the way in which cyberinfrastructure systems are evaluated as part of their long-term development cycles. This is achieved via software elements for enhancing production cyberinfrastructure systems with simulation capabilities so as to enable quantitative evaluation of these systems for arbitrary execution scenarios.