System and Method for Logical Modeling of Distributed Computer Systems

A method comprising:

• enabling design of a distributed computer system at least in part by representing hardware and software resources of the distributed computer system as model components to be included in a design for the distributed computer system, wherein the model components are selected from a group comprising:
• a module that is representative of a behavior of an application that is implemented using the hardware and software resources and is to be implemented by the distributed computer system under design;
• is a port that is representative of a service access point for the module;
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• a wire that is representative of an allowable communication connection between two or more ports;
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• forming, from the model components included in the design, a logical scale-independent model of the application to be implemented by the distributed computer system under design.

A computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, direct a computing device to:

• enable design a distributed computer system at least in part by:
• defining individual model components as abstract functional operations that are physically implemented by one or more computers to be included in a design of the distributed computer system and one or more software programs executing on the computers, the model components having an associated schema dictating how the functional operations are specified;
• interconnecting the model components to logically connect the functional operations;
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• generating a scale-independent application from the interconnected model components and the associated schema;
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• converting the scale-independent application into a blueprint that specifies the computers and the software programs used to physically implement the application.

A system comprising:

• means for designing a distributed computer system at least in part by representing hardware and software resources of the distributed computer system as model components to be included in a design for the distributed computer system, wherein the model components are selected from a group comprising:
• a module that is representative of a behavior of an application that is implemented using the hardware and software resources and is to be implemented by the distributed computer system under design;
• a port that is representative of a communication access point for the module;
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• a wire that is representative of an interconnection between two or more ports;
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• means for associating the model components included in the design with a schema dictating how the hardware and software resources are specified.