Re: Cluster computing drawbacks

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

(snips)

> One application that people wish would run better on SMP machines is
> routing for FPGA or ASIC designs. As far as I understand it, it is
> very difficult to do SMP, though maybe some can do two processors.

The Magma P&R tools can definitely use more than one CPU. Likewise,
the LVS tools can. I don't recall if Synopsys DC can utilize multiple
CPUs. However, that is less interesting (at least to us), since we
cut synthesis jobs into managable chunks so we just run them in
parallel with make (and a bunch of licenses).


Kai
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Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <khp(at)harrekilde(dot)dk>
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