Re: gEDA: Hardware accelerated simulation

[Dale E Martin <dmartin@cliftonlabs.com>]

> > I'm wondering how practical it might be to run simulations on
> > general-purpose clusters, similar to the Beowulf effort for scientific
> > computation.
> Peter, Steve:
> 
> This old thread is always timely.

The SAVANT VHDL simulator from the University of Cincinnati (and more
recently, supported by Clifton Labs) is a parallel VHDL simulator.  It runs
on clusters, networks, etc.  We've been "about to release" version 2.0 for
some time, which has been totally rearchitected in many ways.  Recently
support for parallel VHDL simulation came back into the system - it's not
in the current prerelease but I'm about 3-4 hours from rolling the next
prerelease.

Anyways, this system is functional, still highly experiemental, and could
use interested parties to exercise the parallel simulation, and improve it.
Feel free to contact me if you wish, and I can tell you how to join the
mailing list, how to get the latest code, etc.

BTW, in the last month or two I've been contacted by a person using some of
our work to develop a parallel verilog simulator.  He wasn't ready for help
yet - he's in early stages and so forth.  But there's work going on there
as well.

Later,
	Dale
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