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5 years ago

Quartus prime pro Window 10 runs 6x faster than on linux red hat 7

Quartus prime pro Window 10 runs 6x faster than on linux red hat 7 Using quartus 20.2, the all place and route takes 6h under linux (dedicated big machine with lot's of mem) and runs in 1h using ...
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5 years ago

Attaching run time pictures.

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    AEsqu
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    5 years ago

    I did test using another project on Arria 10,

    it is also the case, 5x faster on Windows 10 using the quartus synthesis tool (in my provious project synplify was used to create the vqm netlist).

    Any clue Intel?

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      5 years ago

      It turned out that the LSF system was making quartus only be able to use 1 core of the CPU...

      Extending to more core speeds up quartus and reaches same speed than under windows 10.

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        5 years ago

        Below an example for the lsf system:

        bsub -n 12 -R "rusage[mem=48000] && cpuf>340" quartus Achilles_arria_X.qpf &

        12 cores usage, memory reservation of 48 GB with a CPU factor above 3.4 GHz (machine with CPU core faster than 3.4 GHz will be used).