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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

Currently I just vnc into the machines (they're all centOS) and use the GUI locally. I dont think you're able to open Quartus on a machine and "farm off" the build to another machine. Basically you've got to be connected to the machine to set off a single build.

With DSE (design space explore) its slightly different. As this usually runs builds in parrallel, you can set up another machine as a "slave" machine. But you will still have at least 1 build running on the master machine (you can have up to 6 per machine). The Master packages up the project and sends it to the slave for processing, before the whole lot is sent back as a QAR file. This invokes all the shell commands for you, all you need to do is enter what seeds you want to explore.