On 01/19/2017 02:09 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Andrew M.A. Cater Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 12:49 PM To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Mobos for portable use
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(I just found that at least a while ago, Xilinx supported clusters for some of their design tools.. Since right now the design I'm working with takes an hour to synthesize (on a single machine), I'm going to look further - it has been a real rate limiter in the lab, because it makes the test, new design, load, test cycle a lot longer.)
it looks like current (vivado 16.4) synthesis program hasn't been parallelized - it's strictly single threaded and so uses just one core... :o/ I've recently benchmarked a few i5 & i7 workstations - there seem to be very little differences (maybe 10-20%) between CPUs released over last ~4-5 years :o/ lukasz -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lukasz Salwinski PHONE: 310-825-1402 UCLA-DOE Institute FAX: 310-206-3914 UCLA, Los Angeles EMAIL: luk...@mbi.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
