Unix workstation runs ISE 6.1 slower than a PC?

[Kelvin @ SG]

Hi, there:

I don't understand why a big chunk Sun workstation runs ISE 6 much slower
than a P3-1GHz!!!
Is this the right behavior or my workstation is lousy? I remembered my Sun
was bought 2 years ago,
over 10K US$...

Anybody use ISE on Unix?

Thanks for your reply...
Kelvin

 

[jtw]

My experience from ~4-5 years ago was that the PII ran the precursor to ISE
about twice as fast as the unix machines I had access to. Of course, if
someone else was doing anything intensive on the unix machine, it went
further downhill. (Yes, if I ran other apps on the PC, things slowed down,
too... but I could choose whether to run them or not.) I've seen similar
results more recently with Spectrum and ModelSim (i.e., running
significantly faster on what PC I had available versus the unix box I had
available.)

Jason

"Kelvin @ SG" <kelvin8157@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi, there:

I don't understand why a big chunk Sun workstation runs ISE 6 much slower
than a P3-1GHz!!!
Is this the right behavior or my workstation is lousy? I remembered my Sun
was bought 2 years ago,
over 10K US$...

Anybody use ISE on Unix?

Thanks for your reply...
Kelvin

 

[Tungsten-W]

my FPGA experience for two months has shown to me PC was much much more
faster than Sun.
While I was impressed by the speed of Sun when it was handling digital ASIC
layout data...I can't test
the speed of the FPGA Editor on Sun as I use Exceed...

Kelvin




jtw <wrightjt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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My experience from ~4-5 years ago was that the PII ran the precursor to
ISE
about twice as fast as the unix machines I had access to. Of course, if
someone else was doing anything intensive on the unix machine, it went
further downhill. (Yes, if I ran other apps on the PC, things slowed
down,
too... but I could choose whether to run them or not.) I've seen similar
results more recently with Spectrum and ModelSim (i.e., running
significantly faster on what PC I had available versus the unix box I had
available.)

Jason

"Kelvin @ SG" <kelvin8157@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c12art$hg4$1@reader01.singnet.com.sg...
Hi, there:

I don't understand why a big chunk Sun workstation runs ISE 6 much
slower
than a P3-1GHz!!!
Is this the right behavior or my workstation is lousy? I remembered my
Sun
was bought 2 years ago,
over 10K US$...

Anybody use ISE on Unix?

Thanks for your reply...
Kelvin