Which Linux to choose for Cadence IC 6.10

Hi all

I have already posted a question regarding running cadence remotely. I
had another question. I am a graduate university student and we have a
few good machines in the lab on which we want to setup Linux and
Cadence. Our admin as agreed either to provide me with cadence
binaries, or let our machines access an installed cadence setup on a
linux machine using NFS. I wanted to find out which Linux distribution
should I be using to successfully install or run cadence. I know
cadence supports RHEL but thats expensive for us to buy. Any help is
highly appreciated.

Thanks

Vaibhav

 

Centos is identical to RHEL without the fee so that would be my
suggestion but I have also used Fedora with great results for all
Cadence tools I have tried.

 

I use OpenSUSE; there are sometimes minor glitches with the 5.1.41 legacy
version (since it contains bugs 10 years old ;-), but 6.1 should run fine.
Cadence also supports SLES/SLED, and that's all based on OpenSUSE. Similar
for RHEL, which is based on Fedora, but Fedora is trying to be "bleeding
edge", i.e. RHEL is some old Fedora version.

One problem with these supported platforms is hardware compatibility. If you
want to use Cadence on recent hardware (because you need the performance),
you can't use the stable supported Linux versions, you need the bleeding
edge community branches.

 

Hi Vaibhav,

I would go with RHEL or any variant of that like CENTOS etc..

Cheers,
Kamesh.

 

Thanks Muzaffer! I downloaded both CentOS 5 and Fedora 9 and was going
to try both. Does the version matter? I know people getting cadence to
work with FC4 and FC7 but may be it doesnt work with new versions. I
will try though.

Also are there any special steps to be followed if I am using Fedora
to install cadence?
-Thanks

 

Not that I remember. I used Fedora 8 with IC61 and that worked with no
problems. In my experience newer versions behave better (both newer
linuxes & newer cadence tools).
Good luck and don't hesitate to ask if you have any problems.

 

I am using IC5141 with Mandriva, and it's working fine.

 

The official roadmaps for Unix/Linux versions from Cadence

http://www.cadence.com/support/computing/Cadence_Platform_Support_Pla...
http://www.cadence.com/support/computing/support_platform.aspx

Cheers,
Riad.