Design and construction of a computer system model for application development workloads

This report describes a capacity planning project for Engineering Information Management (EIM) systems at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque. The purpose of the project was to develop a method for predicting the ability of current hardware computer systems to meet future demands and to quantify the magnitude of required upgrades. The project phases included the analysis of alternative, the selection of analytic modeling as the appropriate vehicle, construction of the model, the development of recommendations for its use as a capacity planning tool, and the formulation of proposals for future enhancements. 9 refs., 3 figs., 1 tab.