Is SUN Blade-1500 suitable for IC Design ?

[survivor]

Hi,

Can someone comment the capability of SUN Blade-1500 in IC Design?

We are searching a robust UNIX machine to do the layout, synthesis and custom block design. Welcome to hear any suggestion from anyone who is familiar with SUN UNIX machine.

Thank you :wink:

 

[visualart]

It is bette platform

 

[computer_terminator]

Sun platform is very stable but expensive.
Intel Xeon+ Linux is an alternative and faster solution.

 

[AlexWan]

I think the stability is more important.

So SUN platform is very outstanding.
I have used the system building on X86 architecture and Linux system. During the back-end work, the system may halt for any reasons.
And the HP system is very fast. But it need many many packets for updata.

Good Luck.

 

[edavio]

I am using sun blade-1000 to run synopsys and cadence. It is not bad. As most of EDA are developed base on solaris or hpux. I think it is better adopt sun or HP. IC design flows are so expensive! Cost of computers is just a piece of cake.