PEnDAR is an InnovateUK funded collaborative project between Predictable Network Solutions (PNSol), Test and Verification Systems (TVS) and Vodafone Group.
It is a study into the feasibility of systematically considering both performance and resource costs early in the system development lifecycle (SDLC). The goal is to consider how to enable Validation & Verification of cost and performance in the field of distributed and hierarchical systems via sophisticated but easy-to-use tools. This approach will be applicable to both new and established systems, to support both initial and ongoing incremental development.
Much of our technology and infrastructure is based on distributed computing systems that share resources (such as the Internet). The way in which such resources are shared impacts the delivered performance. Failing to appropriately account for the inevitable consequences of this sharing often leads to unsatisfactory performance and/or excessive cost.
PEnDAR is designed to assess the value and usefulness of creating tools that aim to enable system developers and system-of-system integrators to gain early visibility of such cost/performance hazards, so that they can make appropriate choices and tradeoffs. A major benefit of such early visibility is avoiding costly failures, and maximising the chances that the development will result in successful in-budget delivery of acceptable end-user outcomes.
It is a study into the feasibility of systematically considering both performance and resource costs early in the system development lifecycle (SDLC). The goal is to consider how to enable Validation & Verification of cost and performance in the field of distributed and hierarchical systems via sophisticated but easy-to-use tools. This approach will be applicable to both new and established systems, to support both initial and ongoing incremental development.
Much of our technology and infrastructure is based on distributed computing systems that share resources (such as the Internet). The way in which such resources are shared impacts the delivered performance. Failing to appropriately account for the inevitable consequences of this sharing often leads to unsatisfactory performance and/or excessive cost.
PEnDAR is designed to assess the value and usefulness of creating tools that aim to enable system developers and system-of-system integrators to gain early visibility of such cost/performance hazards, so that they can make appropriate choices and tradeoffs. A major benefit of such early visibility is avoiding costly failures, and maximising the chances that the development will result in successful in-budget delivery of acceptable end-user outcomes.