Acceleration

[Martin Euredjian]

Has anyone looked into using this product,
http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.cfm
to improve build time?

Would there be any advantages?


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[John Adair]

I can't speak specifically about this product but I do use RAID arrays and
previously RAMDISKs to improve performance and they do work. Looking at this
product I would think there is a good chance that it would help. Let me know
the results if you try it.

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Broaddown2. The Ultimate Spartan3 Development
Board.
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk


"Martin Euredjian" <0_0_0_0_@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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Has anyone looked into using this product,
http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.cfm
to improve build time?

Would there be any advantages?


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[Symon]

Wouldn't it be better using that memory as system memory? Physical space
permitting, of course.
Cheers, Syms.
"John Adair" <removethisthenleavejea@replacewithcompanyname.co.uk> wrote in
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I can't speak specifically about this product but I do use RAID arrays and
previously RAMDISKs to improve performance and they do work. Looking at
this
product I would think there is a good chance that it would help. Let me
know
the results if you try it.

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Broaddown2. The Ultimate Spartan3 Development
Board.
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk


"Martin Euredjian" <0_0_0_0_@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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Has anyone looked into using this product,
http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.cfm
to improve build time?

Would there be any advantages?


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[Paul Leventis (at home)]

Hi Martin,

Has anyone looked into using this product,
http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.cfm
to improve build time?
Would there be any advantages?

A faster storage device is only useful if you are disk I/O limited. There
should not be a significant amount of time spent on disk access (in Quartus,
at least) provided that you have sufficient physical memory for the design
being compiled. If your computer is thrashing (swapping to disk
frequently), then the easiest solution is more RAM. If it isn't thrashing,
then I'm afraid you'll be limited by CPU speed.

- Paul

 

[Martin Euredjian]

There
should not be a significant amount of time spent on disk access (in
Quartus,
at least) provided that you have sufficient physical memory for the design
being compiled.

Right. I knew that to be the case. We are using 2 gigs of RAM on the
compile machines, which seems to be enough to avoid any significant disk
I/O. I was hoping that there would be a little gem of a trick somewhere to
take advantage of this sort of technology.

-Martin