Workbench by HyPerformix

HyPerformix Workbench (formerly called SES/workbench) is our premier simulation modeling tool used worldwide to solve hardware, software, and networking performance and resource allocation problems.

Used by major electronic, telecommunications and computer companies in the US, Japan and Europe, it is an industrial strength modeling and simulation package that enables you to model large, complex systems and get timely, useful results that impact your design and your business.

Description

HyPerformix Workbench is a visual simulation environment used to model complex systems for performance analysis and functional verification. It can model anything that consumes resources and determine the impact of the net result.

Workbench is particularly well suited for specifying and evaluating complex systems involving a high degree of concurrent processing. Examples of such systems include computer hardware and software, electronic chips and boards, communication systems, and manufacturing systems.

The graphical interface allows users to build and represent system designs pictorially. A collection of icons, nodes, and arcs represent system components, processes, resources, transaction flows, and other elements of a design. Visually oriented design methods allow users to accurately represent a full range of factors affecting a design's performance. It also provides a common design standard for communication within design teams. Users can create their own libraries of common components.

Typical system architectures contain a hierarchy of design abstractions. Workbench has been engineered to help the user construct models that map the system architecture being evaluated. Configurable modeling objects such as queues, delays, arcs, and resources are represented by graphical components, allowing the user to create a model of arbitrary abstraction and complexity in an easy, graphical manner.

In addition to the dynamic model analysis and debugging provided by the animation feature, Workbench provides a rich set of features for post simulation analysis, including:

• A general report file detailing built-in and userdefined statistics.
• A tab delimited file for importing into the various statistical tools for customized postprocessing.
• Unique among modeling tools, Workbench gives the modeler the opportunity to use batch means to define the iterations a model will run to reach certain levels of confidence, or boundaries of a defined mean. This feature automatically generates the necessary runs, taking the guess work out deciding how many iterations must run before the model achieves these levels of mean variability.

Features

• Supports collaborative simulation using the IEEE Standard for Modeling and Simulation (IEEE1516) High Level Architecture (HLA).
• Proven successful in database, networking, protocol, hardware, software, HW/SW codesign, embedded and real-time system, client/server, distributed system, and business process engineering problems
• Performance and system analysis oriented
• General purpose discrete event simulation
• Extensive set of high-level simulation operations
• Extensive set statistical and queuing functions
• Support for model parameterization and experimentation
• Fast and proven industrial-strength simulator
• Very extensible with embedded C code
• Supports extremely large designs
• Animated display and control of simulation
• Extensive online help and documentation
• Open interface for creating and extracting model data
• Automatic control of simulation warm-up and run-length
• Statistics browsing and analysis capabilities

Benefits

Workbench provides the following benefits:

• Reduced risk and uncertainty - accurately builds an executable model of current systems as well as future configurations
• Optimized cost and performance - model can be built with quantitative comparisons between the current process and proposed processes to determine the most efficient and cost-effective alternative
• Validated system design - animated business processes confirms functionality and workflow
• Reduced time-to-market - identifies problems early in the development cycle
• Managing evolving systems - provides clear understanding of the next step

Requirements

Window System Requirements

• Windows 2000 Windows XP Professional, with SP-1
• 1 GHZ PC Processor or faster
• 256 MB of RAM minimum
• 50 MB of available disk space for product installation
• 120-350 MB of available disk space for a C++ compiler
• Java Runtime Environment version 1.3

Solaris System Requirements

• Solaris 2.7, 2.8, or 2.9
• 256 MB of RAM minimum
• 50 MB of available disk space for product installation