machine/cpu recommendations for AMS sims

[gmc_99]

Hi,

I'm a bit out of touch with running large sims so could do with a bit
of help choosing an optimal configuration - used to use rack based
opterons but that was a while back.
I'm interested in some real world machine/cpu recommendations for
running AMS sims. I'm running veriloga and verilog rtl in AMS under
ADE - IC5141. ( at some point the real schematics will be swapped in )

OS
Using RHEL 4 - but I have a memory that RHEL5 was faster
32bit vs 64bit

TOOLS
IC5141_USR5 / Incisive_92 / MMSIM_62
again I think MMSIM7 was faster but we don't have time to swap so need
to stick with these

CPS
Raw clock speed used to be the thing with large on chip cache

Mobo/System
Any good ideas on what works best

Budget
No supercooled systems just affordable ones for a small engineering
company

cheers
G

 

[Riad KACED]

Hi G,

It all depends on the size of your design, the computing power you
need and the memory you are likely to use.
Nowadays, the Linux based PCs are so powerful that one does not
necessarily need a super-computer.
It's all down to how much money your want to spend really.

Cheers,
Riad.

 

[gmc_99]

Hi Riad,

well I think I'm going to spend very little! - The design is small and
with a few tests I ran, at the end of last week, the time scaled
linearly with the clock speed. So I'm going to drop in a new disk with
RHEL on it into my win desktop and see how it runs - it's a 3GHz
machine.

Hope you're doing OK
cheers
G