HPCWorks Flowtracer
HPCWorks™ Flowtracer™ software – part of the Siemens Xcelerator business platform of software, hardware and services – is a design-flow creation, management and execution tool that enables users to visualize and analyze complex design flows and optimize compute resources in fields such as semiconductor design, software development and more. HPCWorks Flowtracer enables engineering teams to accelerate time-to-market and maintain the highest standards of design integrity. In modern computing environments, managing thousands of interdependent tasks is a significant challenge for chip designers who use electronic design automation (EDA) tools. HPCWorks Flowtracer addresses this by capturing and updating dependencies in real time, ensuring that only necessary tasks are executed. This approach reduces compute waste and gives designers the visibility they need to diagnose and resolve flow bottlenecks efficiently, and to easily handle the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workflows. Automated runtime tracing: The core of HPCWorks Flowtracer is its runtime tracing technology. Unlike tools that rely on manual dependency declarations, HPCWorks Flowtracer monitors tool interactions with the file system during command execution. This ensures that every input and output is automatically accounted for. If a source file changes, HPCWorks Flowtracer identifies the affected downstream tasks, eliminating the risk of stale data or redundant processing. Scalable flow definition: To manage complexity across large organizations, HPCWorks Flowtracer uses Flow Definition Notation (FDN). This JSON-based format allows teams to define, share and transfer complete design flows between different systems and sites. FDN provides a structured way to encapsulate job metadata, dependencies and execution parameters, making it easier to standardize workflows across global engineering teams and maintain consistency throughout the product lifecycle. Optimized parallel execution: HPCWorks Flowtracer maximizes hardware utilization by identifying the parallelism inherent in design flows. It integrates with distributed compute clusters and cloud infrastructure to execute independent tasks concurrently, and its built-in scheduler manages job priorities and resource allocation so critical-path tasks complete first. This intelligent orchestration results in faster turnaround times for large-scale verification and synthesis runs. Capabilities include: • Real-time visualization of complex design flows and dependency graphs • Automatic failure detection and immediate notification for rapid debugging • Integration with popular development languages, including Python, Julia and Jupyter Notebook • Support for local, batch and cloud execution environments • Low-overhead architecture capable of managing millions of jobs with minimal memory footprint
Who Is the Company Behind HPCWorks Flowtracer?
- Seller: Siemens Digital Industries Software
- Year Founded: 1980
- HQ Location: Plano, Texas
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