Re: Server configuration for Virtex5

On Feb 5, 6:03 pm, Sky46...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The synthesis tools currently run as a single threaded process, and
therefore dual and quad core CPUs have a limited effect on
performance. I run the tools on my dual core desktop and the main
benefit of dual core for me is that I can perform other tasks while
the tools are crunching away on one of the CPUs, on my previous single
core machine it was pretty much unusable.
Apart from having at least one fast CPU you will also benefit greatly
from having a large amount of high bandwidth memory (<=2GB). Make sure
it is dual channel and some high frequency DDR variant.
I'm not sure what impact fast hard drives make, since (as far as i
know) as long as you don't run out of memory that's where the number
crunching is performed.

The factors seems to look like this:
* Don't bother with more than one core.
* L2 cache is really good (L1 doesn't hurt).
* Fast memory bus (FSB speed).
* Fast dram chips (DDR2 >600 MHz etc).
* 64 bit over 32bit.
* CPU frequency.

So you should get fast memory primarly, and secondarly look at cpu frequency.

Hi,
Rob,
sky46

Thanks a lot for your inputs.

--
Goli
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