HW: Sun Fire v40Z w/dual AMD Opteron dual-core processors OS: Solaris 9 for x86 Looking at the script to install InstallScape leaves me wondering if Cadence supports Solaris on Sun x86 boxes? We were told that Cadence supports up to Solaris 9, and we have tested that configuration successfully on an older Sun Fireblade 1000 (SPARC architecture). The getiscape.sh script to automate the installation of InstallScape provides 5 Hardware/OS choices, but none of them match our configuration exactly. Platform: OS: ================================== 1. sun4v Sun SPARC/Solaris 2. hppa HP PA/RISC HP UX 3. lnx86 Intel/Linux 4. ibmrs IBM AIX 5. lni64 Itanium/Linux Curiously, when selecting, "3. lnx86 Intel/Linux", the script doesn't ask what version of Linux. After more research, I'm finding that Solaris can run Linux apps unmodified. I haven't read enough to share the specifics yet, other than Sun is working on a newer method for Solaris 10 than was used in Solaris 9. I would appreciate hearing from Cadence support and Cadence end-users on this topic. Thanks! John
Solaris on x86 is not a supported platform yet. The only Sun architecture Cadence supports at the moment is SPARC. Solaris 10 x86 is supposed to be coming, but I don't know when.
Various Cadence (and Synopsys and Mentor and Magma and...) applications are supported and/or run fine on a blizzard of various Linux distributions and releases. No, the installation wrappers don't try to discriminate, in general. The applications might, however. In particular, the compiled-code logic simulators (VCS, NCsim and friends) are understandably extremely picky about what release/version they run on. The full Cadence application/OS matrix is: http://www.cadence.com/support/computing/support_platform.aspx "Normal" applications (Encounter, Astro, Blast Fusion, Hspice, Spectre, Eldo, Calibre, Hercules Assura...) tend to be tolerant about what Linux they run on; for example, Virtuoso 5141 is only officially supported on RHEL2. I'm running on dual-core Opteron HW with RHEL4-U3, works great. More-or-less ditto for Calibre and Hercules, for example. I don't think you're talking about lxrun, that sounds a bit dodgy for running EDA apps. http://www.sun.com/software/linux/compatibility/lxrun/download.xml So I think you're talking about "Solaris Containers for Linux". http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/scla.jsp Which I *think* is really Xen, and is really just running Solaris and Linux on the the same HW simultaneously. -Jay-
Thanks, Ed! FYI, I just read a Cadence EOL (End of Life) support on Solaris 8 & 9. Looks like Cadence is commited to having all their apps running on Solaris 10 by Jan. 1, 2008.
Thanks for all that info, Jay! That was my next question, "Anyone running Cadence on Linux and what versions??" I'm leaning towards SUSE Linux Enterprise System 9. It seems to have outstanding support for the AMD Opterons (including dual core). Did you happen to compare Red Hat with SUSE before you selected it? Be curious to hear any feedback, Jay. Thanks again! John
No, it's a corporate IT decision, and I had nothing to do with it. If you're worried about "official" support from CDN/SNPS/MENT/LAVA/etc., then RHEL3/4 is the majority answer. Dunno what I'd do today if I was back in a small shop and making the decision myself... -Jay-
