Model Technology and Platform Computing increase simulation capacity for server farms

 Paris 29 Mar 00 Model Technology, a Mentor Graphics company and a supplier of HDL simulation tools, and Platform Computing announced a joint solution that dramatically increases simulation capacity in distributed computing environments. The integration of Platform's Load Sharing Facility (LSF) software and Model Technology's ModelSim simulator allows customers to maximize the capacity and utilization of their simulation farms - enabling both more simulation cycles per day and a better return on investment. By coupling ModelSim with LSF's job management software, designers can now easily construct and manage simulation farms with any number of workstations across multiple locations.

Model Technology, a Mentor Graphics company and a supplier of HDL simulation tools, and Platform Computing announced a joint solution that dramatically increases simulation capacity in distributed computing environments.

"The integration of ModelSim and LSF is a very natural process," says Phil Weaver, president and COO for Platform Computing Corp. "Simulation is an ideal candidate for our technology, because customers need as many cycles as they can get. This combination maximizes the amount of simulation that can be extracted from any customer's environment and increases the value of every platform added to it."

Custom features developed by Model Technology and Platform Computing exploit ModelSim's compressed checkpoint format. Because the compressed files are much smaller than traditional files, swapping and restarting jobs is much faster – increasing workstation utilization. Another custom feature automates the periodic checkpointing of longer jobs – ensuring that a system failure does not require a complete restart of the simulation.

ModelSim provides single-kernel simulation and dual-language support for cutting-edge ASIC and high-end FPGA design on PCs, UNIX and Linux workstations. The Linux version of ModelSim to enable customers to deploy high-performance, cost-effective simulation farms that will provide increased simulation capacity for system-on-chip (SoC) design verification.

 

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