Support for SMP ??


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From Jon Bendtsen <jon@silicide.dk>
Date Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:29:40 +0100
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Hi, here at work, we are designing ASIC's. We have considered using 
ng-spice to simulate ...
erhm, stuff, yeah lets call it that. (i dont know much about 
eletronics/ASIC/... i'm just the sysadm.)

Anyway, we were wondering if ng-spice supports SMP, that being 2 or more 
processors
And/Or if one could put the simulations on a beowulf cluster and get 
faster simulations out of that.

Finaly, there exists some nice pci cards with 1-4 G4 cpu's on them. The 
G4 has the altivec unit, which should be quite nice for doing matrix 
calculations, which i have heard from our designers that the simulations 
do ALOT of. So, my question was if ng-spice runs on powerpc/G4 and makes 
use of the altivec. (possible also if altivec might be a benefit for 
this kind of computation.)


ion++


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