Can DNC support cycle dependency?

[spzhan]

May I ask if the DNC tool supports cyclic dependency networks and the corresponding fixed point function? Or it only support non-cycle dependency networks (such as Tandem, Tree and Feed-forward)?

Looking forward to your reply. Thank you!
spzhan

[sbondorf]

Dear spzhan,

the DNC tool does not (yet) provide implementations of analyses that can derive bounds in network with cyclic dependencies. I.e., the implemented analyses are in the "breaking" category defined in this paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3356401.3356418
Another publication regarding this was recently presented at the IFIP Performance conference and will soon be published in a Special Issue of the ACM Performance Evaluation Review.

For an overview of features of different DNC implementations, I can recommend this article about a common interface called Saihu https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14565.pdf

Best regards

[spzhan]

Dear sbondorf,

Thank you for your reply, the information you provided is very useful to me.

Best regards