User Guide: Coretime Price Simulator ​

Introduction ​

This guide will walk you through the features and functionalities of the simulator, ensuring you make the most out of this application. For a video guide check out this youtube video:

Visualization ​

The Coretime Price Simulator provides a graphical representation of sale prices over time based on your input settings. Key periods, such as Interlude, Leadin, and Region, are distinctly marked on the graph for clarity.

Sidebar: Customizing Your Simulation ​

The sidebar is your control panel for customizing the simulation. It contains various settings that directly influence the graph's output.

Hovering over the ? icon next to each setting reveals additional information.

Configuration Settings ​

In the 'Configuration Settings' section, sliders allow you to adjust various parameters that influence Coretime pricing:

1. Ideal Bulk Proportion: Sets the target ratio of cores for stable pricing. Prices rise if cores_sold exceed this proportion.
2. Interlude Length: Defines the renewal period, giving precedence to existing tasks.
3. Leadin Length: Duration of dynamic pricing phase where prices gradually decrease to the sale price, reflecting market demand.
4. Limit Cores Offered: Maximum number of cores available per sale, crucial for maintaining market balance.
5. Region Length: Time span of core allocation for each sale, indicative of the bulk period in Agile Coretime.
6. Renewal Bump: Incremental price increase for renewals, facilitating long-term budgeting.

Sale Settings ​

Adjust the sale settings to specify the time frame and initial pricing for your simulation.

1. Observation Time: Use the 'X-AXIS - Observing time' slider to select the number of regions to observe.
2. Initial Core Pricing: Determine starting prices for cores with the 'Y-AXIS' sliders.

Core Sales Configuration ​

Customize your sale model:

• Constant Sales: Set a uniform number of cores renewed and sold in each sale.
• Variable Sales: Modify the number of cores renewed and sold for each region, reflecting a dynamic market model.

For constant sales:

For variable sales:

The graph for variable sales that coresponds to above settings will look like this:

Additional Feature: Leadin Period Curve ​

A unique feature of our simulator is the ability to modify the Leadin period curve. This lets you explore how linear or exponential pricing models impact Coretime prices.