Measuring Success in Semiconductor Design Optimization, What Metrics Matter?
There are few fields in the world as competitive as semiconductor design exploration and verification. Teams might run tens of millions of compute jobs in a single day on their quest to bring new chips to market first, requiring vast quantities of compute and increasingly, cloud and emulator resources, as well as expensive EDA licenses, and the all-important resource, time. In this roundtable, experts will discuss the license-, job-, compute- and host-based metrics that the world’s leading semiconductor companies measure and tune for, highlighting the optimization strategies that edge out the competition and drive up profitability.
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Powering New Possibilities in the Cloud
Together with cloud providers and our other HPC partners, Intel is driving the performance and flexibility that are critical to running advanced HPC workloads in the cloud. We collaborate across our HPC ecosystem to help cloud providers offer accelerated, secure, and agile environments using our latest technologies, such as Intel® Xeon® processors.
As cloud customers continue exploring new possibilities and applications for HPC, Intel is dedicated to facilitating their success. Intel works with HPC partners from various industries to enable forward-thinking cloud use cases such as bursting, AI, and advanced analytics. Learn how Intel collaborates with Public and Private Cloud Service Providers to optimize HPC workloads for fast, cost-effective execution on Intel-based Cloud Instances.
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Saving Serious Money with License-first Scheduling
Altair's Stuart Taylor, director of enterprise computing core development, gives you an inside look at the license-first scheduling strategy the world's top technology companies use to increase the amount of high-performance, high-throughput computing jobs that can be executed across a finite resource set.
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Design Flow Mapping and Optimization: The Tool Every VLSI Team Needs
Very large-scale integration (VLSI) for integrated circuits combines millions of transistors on a single chip, so design efficiency is critical. In this on-demand video presentation, Altair's Stuart Taylor discusses design flow mapping and optimization for VLSI and demonstrates Altair FlowTracer™ for advanced flow development and execution.
HPC Summit 2020
Altair for HPC and Cloud Applications
In the data center and in the cloud, Altair’s industry-leading HPC tools let you orchestrate, visualize, optimize, and analyze your most demanding workloads.
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PBS Works Documentation
Documentation for PBS Works Products, including Release Notes, Programmer's Guides, User's Guides, and Administrator's Guides
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Altair FlowTracer Datasheet
Altair FlowTracer™ is an advanced platform for developing and executing flows. FlowTracer’s tracing technique analyzes flows and identifies the dependencies and inherent parallelism built into today’s complex flows, optimizing use of compute resources.
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Altair FlowTracer Demo
Altair FlowTracer is an advanced platform for developing and executing flows. FlowTracer’s tracing technique analyzes flows and identifies the dependencies and inherent parallelism built into today’s complex flows, optimizing use of compute resources.
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Introduction to Altair FlowTracer
Altair FlowTracer is an advanced platform for developing and executing flows. FlowTracer’s tracing technique analyzes flows and identifies the dependencies and inherent parallelism built into today’s complex flows, optimizing use of compute resources. Learn more in this video.
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Change Propagation Control and Flow Branching with FlowTracer
View this product demo video featuring Altair FlowTracer to learn more about the product's functionality.
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Six Smarter Scheduling Techniques for Optimizing EDA Productivity
Semiconductor firms rely on software tools for all phases of the chip design process, from system-level design to logic simulation and physical layout. Given the enormous investment in tools, design talent, and infrastructure, even minor improvements in server farm efficiency can significantly impact the bottom line. As a result, verification engineers and IT managers are constantly looking for new sources of competitive advantage.
Workload management plays a crucial role in helping design teams share limited resources, boost simulation throughput, and maximize productivity. In this paper, we discuss six valuable techniques to help improve design center productivity.
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