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News Summary Runtime Design Automation (RTDA), a leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software provider based in Santa Clara, CA, will debut their suite of proven resource management products to the HPC marketplace.

RTDA will be exhibiting the following products at SuperComputing 2011:

* NetworkComputer High Performance Job Scheduling

* WorkloadAnalyzer IT Compute Farm Simulator & Planner

* LicenseMonitor Monitor Software License Utilization

* FlowTracer Design Flow Development & Management

Full Story Two of the above products are of particular interest for any HPC users of Distributed Resource Management. NetworkComputer offers one of the fastest throughput rates compared with leading schedulers. RTDA customers managing many millions of active jobs report up to 60% faster delivery of production workloads. WorkloadAnalyzer is a unique compute farm simulator, with What-if Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis, Optimization, and Workload Editing, which allows valuable insight into how resource changes affect performance.

Originally developed for the EDA industry, NetworkComputer boasts performance that is many times better than leading DRM products on the HPC market today. Users of Platform's LSF (recently acquired by IBM), Grid Engine, PBS (Portable Batch System), and Condor will be especially interested to try this product, which handles many millions of jobs.

Most production-intensive compute farms may have performance bottlenecks due to insufficient numbers of licenses, or a lack of additional servers. But which servers within the cluster will best resolve the bottleneck? RTDA pinpoints with precision the most effective type of servers required, among the many different kinds of servers utilized at heterogeneous server farms. It also recommends the number of additional licenses needed to reach a specific goal, such as maximum utilization without job starvation or the best response time needed by engineers to finalize projects.

Supporting Quotes "For sixteen years we developed our products in the heart of Silicon Valley, with daily interaction with the leading electronic design organizations in the world, located only a few miles away from our office," said Frank Bailey, RTDA's Sales VP. "When 80% of our trials are converted into sales, that is a sign we must move on to other market segments."

"We were using LSF, but after looking at the combination of functionality, support, and cost offered by FlowTracer and NetworkComputer, we decided to switch," said Winston Worrell, Senior VLSI Cad Engineer, Microsoft.

Availability RTDA will demo the NetworkComputer and the High Performance Job Scheduling and WorkloadAnalyzer IT Compute Farm Simulator & Planner at booth 6006 at SC11.