The TANGRAMII integrated modeling environment for computer systems and networks

Abstract

The TANGRAM-II tool has been developed aiming at supporting the performance analyst throughout the entire modeling process, from model construction and model solution to experimentation. The tool has a powerful user interface that can be tailored to specific problem domain, it includes a rich set of analytic solution techniques, distinct options for obtaining the measures of interest, a hybrid fluid and event driven simulator, visualization features to follow the model's evolution with time, traffic generators and active measurement techniques to assist the user in performing computer networking experimentation. These and additional characteristics make TANGRAM-II a unique tool for research and education.