HPC in Electronics
Electronics industry faces many challenges to stay competitive in a fast-paced world characterized by short windows of opportunity and escalating design costs.
Escalating Costs of Tapeout
- The biggest hurdle the industry is facing isn’t performance or technological capability – it’s getting the cost of developing chips down.
Increasing volume – decreasing profits
- As chip prices fall, companies must sell more product just to maintain revenue and profitability levels. Each day that a chip is late to the market can mean millions in potential sales lost.
Shortened design cycles
- The pressure to get superior designs to market first is intense. Yet the window of opportunity to market a new chip design is often shorter than the design cycle. The most agile firms will recover maximum ROI by being first-to-market.
Collaborative design growing in importance
- Everything from the design and testing of the applications used by the electronics industry, to the testing of final product is becoming highly interdependent. This makes it increasingly important to standardize on HPC management software that is used by all partners in the eco-system.
Demand for improved IT productivity
- As HPC infrastructures grow larger and more heterogeneous, speed is no longer enough. Companies also need visibility into how IT resources are being used in order to maintain both productivity and quality.
The Platform Solution
Platform’s HPC management software solution for design flow allows you to boost productivity while guaranteeing quality of results and reducing your total cost of ownership.
The Platform LSF family accelerates chip designs, while our analytics and cluster monitoring solutions, Platform LSF Analytics Solution, Platform RTM and Platform Manage tackle the full range of challenges presented by total cluster lifecycle management. Platform Computing provides a complete solution suite that lets you to combine scalability and performance with the most effective management and monitoring of your server farm infrastructure resources.
- Achieve competitive advantage and boost revenues. Focus on business-critical design and testing rather than IT resource provisioning and availability to capitalize on narrow windows of opportunity in the market.
- Accelerate product development and achieve higher quality of results. Leverage the full capability of existing resources with sophisticated system manageability for ‘always-on’ availability, ensuring critical application licenses are in place for high priority projects.
- Self-healing and self-adaptive functions. Guarantee that jobs are not lost, eliminating the need for re-work.
- Direct resources to the most profitable new products. Share virtualized IT resources via policies based on your business priorities.
- Manage IT assets more intelligently and reduce Total Cost of Ownership.
- Enhance visibility of existing hardware and software assets to make intelligent, cost-effective IT consolidation decisions to simplify and streamline your IT environment.
- Plug-and-play integrations for leading EDA applications. Enable more simulations and verifications in a shorter amount of time, reducing management complexity and deployment costs.
