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10 years ago

Global way to set NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS 1 for all Quartus jobs?

I am trying to automate test flows with Quartus in UGE (Univa Grid Engine; formerly SGE) and machines in my farm are running into load problems because Quartus tries to set the default number of para...
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10 years ago

Thanks. This does appear to work the way I was hoping. I have one follow up: it only works if I put assignments_default.qdf in the project directory like you stated. I saw some online documentation (maybe dated) saying you can also place this file in $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/quartus/bin for a more global solution. When I tried this it didn't work. Is there a "higher level" I could apply this setting than the project directory (anywhere under $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR or $HOME/.altera.quartus)?

Thanks,

Jeff