Modeling hardware-software interactions in parallel and distributed systems using stochastic high-level Petri nets
Dan Cristian Marinescu, Jayde Rice · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1989
The ability to model the iteration between the hardware and the software components of a system is extremely useful in distributed system design, real-time system analysis, parallel algorithm design, and several other significant areas of research. Non-deterministic performance analysis of such interactions carried out using simulation methods, queueing analysis or hybrid methods, becomes prohibitively expensive for systems of any practical interest.