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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Synthesis on Build Server?

Hi All, We're having a discussion in our group about putting a compiler on a build server that can compile our source controlled projects. Has anyone done this before? Do we need to get a...
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12 years ago

The build server is just a normal copy of quartus, on a powerful machine. Quartus can be set up to wait for a licence, but if it's already in use, it cannot take it off someone.

You mention a fixed licence? usually thats a separate issue to floating licences as fixed ones can only be used by specified machines.

Here we have 6 "grunt" machines (6 core Xeons with 24GB or 48GB of ram). Generally, I only use these for DSE runs, but I can have up to 30 compiles running simultaneously.