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running simulations on dedicatede SSD drive

magal

Hi,

We are running fairly large simulations/extractions/LVSs in our lab (100s'-k components, RLCK). One of the key limiting factors of our simulation speed was that our data is sitting on a university file server (if I understand this correctly). Our simulation machine fetched the files from the file-server for processing so no only simulation speed suffered, the communication of other users with the file server was clogged as well. We already noticed that by running our simulation locally (i.e. in simulation directory set ../tmp in stead of ./simulation), speed and traffic SIGNIFICANTLY improved.

The question is whether or not setting our local simulation directory on an SSD will further accelerate performance.

Our typical local machine is 16/32 physical/logical cores, 2.6GHz processors with 512GB RAM, running IC616 (latest hotfix).

Any insights will be much appreciated,

Thanks ahead,

Matan

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