METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A COST ESTIMATE FOR SIZING A COMPUTER SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention relates to a method of providing a cost estimate for a data processing system, the method comprising the steps of: selecting of an application program of a set of application programs, each application program having a number of objects, entering of data being descriptive of a load profile, retrieving a set of sizing coefficients for each object of the selected one of the application programs, estimating the hardware requirements for the data processing system for each one of the objects of the selected one of the application programs by entering of the sizing coefficients and the load profile into a sizing model, entering of the hardware requirements for each one of the objects of the selected one of the application programs into a cost estimator component to provide a cost estimation for the data processing systems costs for each one of the program objects of the selected one of the application programs, calculating of the total hardware requirement by adding of the hardware requirements, calculating of the total cost estimate by adding of the cost estimations.