Performance based system configuration as preprocessing for system peformance simulation

A system for performance-based system design configuration generation, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory memory having stored thereon modules executed by the processor, the modules comprising:
• a design configuration module configured to receive seed designs, a specification of requirements for a system design, and user defined goals for the system, and to generate a set of system design configurations, each system design configuration comprising a unique set of components that satisfy system goals and system requirements;
• an explainable recommendation module configured to:
• determine, for each system design configuration, an estimated system performance value associated with each component of the system design configuration, wherein the value represents the component-based contribution to performance of the system configuration based on a simulation model;
• and
• rank the list of system configurations according to system performance values;
• and
• a user interface module configured to communicate information exchanged between a graphical user interface and the explainable recommendation module, wherein the graphical user interface displays a design dashboard that presents the system configurations in rank order, and for each system configuration, the estimated system performance value for each of the system configuration components;
• wherein the top ranked system configurations are recommended to the user for performance simulation setup.