The open source electric software website is http://www.staticfreesoft.com and also https://www.gnu.org/software/electric/
I have used electric and it has a lot of very powerful features, and seems more stable and streamlined than the commercial products from cadence. Thanks, Scott Scott Hamilton Solution Architect II Atos Big Data & Security - NAO (573)324-7124 scott.hamil...@atos.net -----Original Message----- From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Lukasz Salwinski Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:52 AM To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Mobos for portable use On 01/20/2017 09:14 AM, Hamilton, Scott wrote: > I am not sure how far they have come, but the open source Electric design > suite was working on MPI based parallelization of their simulation and > fabrication processes. It might be worth checking into. > > Scott > > Scott Hamilton > Solution Architect II > Atos Big Data & Security - NAO > (573)324-7124 > scott.hamil...@atos.net uh.. do you have a less generic pointer ? all I can find is software for house wiring design ;o) there's also: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-catapult/ lukasz > -----Original Message----- > From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Lux, > Jim (337C) > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:31 AM > To: Lukasz Salwinski; beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Mobos for portable use > > > > > > > On 1/20/17, 8:07 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Lukasz Salwinski" > <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of luk...@mbi.ucla.edu> wrote: > >> On 01/19/2017 09:11 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: >> >>> On 1/19/17, 4:29 PM, "Beowulf on behalf of Lukasz Salwinski" >>> <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of luk...@mbi.ucla.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> [...] >>>>> (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 >>> >>> yeah, on further investigation, the parallelized part is the >>> iterative ³try lots of options² which isn¹t much use. >>> >>> I¹ve got the design, I don¹t need to optimize a parameter. >>> >> >> to my knowledge, parts of place/route use more than one core. I'm >> guessing it might be because these were, from the very beginning, >> series of independent MonteCarlo-like runs that were easy to parallelize. >> > > Makes sense.. way back in the 80s, their earliest tools used simulated > annealing for place and route (and it took all night on a 80286 based > computer, for a VERY small FPGA like the XC2064, back when folks were looking > to maybe, sometime, get down to micron feature sizes). but schemes like that > are very amenable to parallelization. They could easily run multiple threads > without having to spend a lot of software development time. Splitting it > into multiple machines (i.e. a cluster) is a lot harder, especially if their > internal software architecture wasn't set up for that. > > Surprising though.. given the number of people doing designs, and how long it > takes to run for not very complex designs on the latest parts (something that > would fill the largest Virtex 7 must take days), you'd think that they'd work > on it. time is very much money. > > Maybe that's where folks like synopsys come in. You pay the big bucks for the > tools and it runs on that cluster. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ 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
