Supercomputers for EDA?
It was an offbeat announcement, I thought, when I saw Synopsys’ press release stating they had hit the top500. Number 242 in the top 500 fastest supercomputers that is…
So, since when are EDA companies in the business of creating teraflop computers? Especially wheen they’re constantly engaged in making their software faster. But there it is, all you need are 329 linux servers all hooked up with 1GB ethernet, and you’re ready to take on your next big design (oh yeah, and unlimited licenses!).
None of the articles about the Synopsys screamer mentioned which software was being run, but then this blog post over at Mike Santarini’s blog on EDN shed a little light on why all the EDA compute power might be needed. Mentor is teaming up with supercompter specialists Mercury Computer Systems and IBM on their new offering in nm-scale OPC.
So the mass of data has become too massive for for your garden variety linux pool. You now need a supercomputer!
help…
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