( ESNUG 585 Item 4 ) ---------------------------------------------- [11/20/18]
Subject: Dean on hybrid cloud bursting EDA flows with IC Manage PeerCache
DAC'18 Troublemakers Panel in San Francisco
Cooley: Cloud is hot this year clearly. Dean this seems to be your year.
Dean you just announced a tool that helps get EDA flows into the
cloud. (ESNUG 582 #8) Does that put you in trouble?
I mean with Cadence going full hog into the cloud, too?
Dean: No.
Cooley: Ok, thanks. (laughter)
Dean: What we announced was IC Manage PeerCache. Which is a high
performance, scale-out I/O solution. So that you can get the
I/O that you need to run the compute jobs in the cloud.
What that gives you is the ability to run your existing
workflows, your existing tools, and your existing designs using a
cloud burst -- so you can expand into the cloud and run without
having to change your stuff.
When you look at what Cadence is focused on, they're working on
getting the licensing model sorted out so that you can get
licenses to the tools in the cloud and get them on-demand. And
they're working on making the tools available in the cloud, okay,
so that you can get them, and they're compatible with the various
cloud providers.
But they're not doing a system like PeerCache which dynamically
determines which files are needed for which job and then quickly
transmits them up to the cloud -- and only use the ones that are
needed, providing a massive peer-to-peer I/O system so that you
can run ten thousand jobs in the cloud.
It's a very different focus, and in fact, totally complementary.
So, we're kind of cheering Cadence, on because we want more stuff
available in the cloud, so that more people will want to use
PeerCache to get their existing workflows into the cloud.
The customers want to move into the cloud for the cost savings,
the benefits; if you look at the investment that the cloud
providers have done in data centers and the amount of technology
they have developed, their cost advantages and their scale far
surpasses what any single semiconductor company could possibly
ever do, because the scale is so huge.
We have no choice. You have no choice, you're going to have to
use cloud-based systems for design to be competitive in the long
run. And so, we've got to figure out how to get there.
But there's such a huge investment that the design teams have
made in their workflows. I mean the workflows are like the DNA
of the organization. You can't change them. There's so much
history and you're using old designs, and you're re-porting
designs, and you're using old stuff and new stuff and merging it.
It's complicated, and to just say 'Oh I'm going to flip it into
the cloud' when the cloud has no real shared file system doesn't
really work. You need some kind of shared file system to make it
work.
And that's what PeerCache provides. It's a cool product that
solves a key problem for our customers.
Cooley: Okay.
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