Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for choosing a digital processing platform that is optimal for a specified type of application and satisfies a set of user-specified constraints is provided. In operation, all known parameters on all available processing platforms in a database are stored, providing this information to a computer software application run by the user by querying the database, and then allowing a remote user to specify the constraints, in terms of hardware and system software, to eliminate those entries that would not satisfy the constraints in a step-by-step filtering process. The user then chooses a set of application programs to run on the platforms that were not eliminated. The runtime performance parameters/characteristics—e.g. computational throughput, I/O bandwidth, environmental parameters, etc. are measured to select the optimal solution. The system and method also allows for a regression test to ensure consistency between test software processes running on discrete platforms.

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for choosing a digital processing platform that is optimal for a specified type of application and satisfies a set of user-specified constraints is provided. In operation, all known parameters on all available processing platforms in a database are stored, providing this information to a computer software application run by the user by querying the database, and then allowing a remote user to specify the constraints, in terms of hardware and system software, to eliminate those entries that would not satisfy the constraints in a step-by-step filtering process. The user then chooses a set of application programs to run on the platforms that were not eliminated. The runtime performance parameters/characteristics—e.g. computational throughput, I/O bandwidth, environmental parameters, etc. are measured to select the optimal solution. The system and method also allows for a regression test to ensure consistency between test software processes running on discrete platforms.