Monte-Carlo multi processor multi jobs?

[Harald Neubauer]

Hi,
i've got a linux numbercruncher with 2 hyperthreaded processors and
would like to speed up simulation ;-). Is there a way to tell monte
carlo to submit 4 jobs in parallel?
Regards, Harald

[Andrew Beckett]

Use the Artist Distributed Processing system. You can easily set up queues,
where a particular queue is set up using the built in Cadence "LBS" system.
(See manuals for more info, but a quick setup is as follows):

1. Create a configuration file:

queueName numberOfMachines
machine1 numberOfJobs
machine2 numberOfJobs
queue2 numberOfMachines
...

e.g.

parallelQueue 1
linuxMachine 4

2. Pick a machine as your queue manager, and then run:

cdsqmgr /path/to/the/queue_config

3. Before running DFII, do:

setenv LBS_CLUSTER_MASTER queueMachineName

where queueMachineName was the machine you ran cdsqmgr on.

Then you can submit Artist jobs (setting setup simulator/dir/host) as
"distributed". You can also do this with Tools->Monte Carlo, and choose
how it splits the jobs up into multiple pieces (you could have 4 jobs of
25 monte-carlo points each, say).

Regards.

Andrew.

--
Andrew Beckett
Senior Technical Leader
Custom IC Solutions
Cadence Design Systems Ltd

[Harald Neubauer]

Hi Andrew,
I tried to do that but i fail getting a failure message saying i
should do what i already have done..
Is there a way to get more information?
cdsqmgr doesnt give any message...
Thanxs, Harald

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