1. Using Grid Computing in Parallel Electronic Circuit Simulation Marko Dimitrijević FACULTY OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ LABORATORY FOR ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION

2. Introduction Electronic circuit simulation Electronic circuit simulation Parallelization of simulation process Parallelization of simulation process The basic of grid computing The basic of grid computing Circuit simulation in grid environment Circuit simulation in grid environment Conclusion Conclusion

3. Circuit simulation – the most intensive calculations Significant processing power Significant processing power Large operating memory Large operating memory Large storage capacity Large storage capacity Simulation runtimes are very long Simulation runtimes are very long

4. Parallelization – a way to reduce calculation time OpenMP OpenMP MPI MPI

5. Parallel simulator implementation pAlecsis – Parallel Analog and Logic Electronic Circuits Simulation System: Mixed-signal and mixed-domain simulator Mixed-signal and mixed-domain simulator Master-slave algoritam Master-slave algoritam MPI implementation MPI implementation

6. Parallel simulator implementation pAlecsis – Parallel Analog and Logic Electronic Circuits Simulation System:

7. Parallel simulator implementation pAlecsis – Parallel Analog and Logic Electronic Circuits Simulation System: Number of MOSFETs Simulation Speedup Time(1 node) / Time(2 nodes) 4200.96 7401.1 14801.5

8. Scientific challenging – intensive calculations

9. Grid Resource sharing and coordinated problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations.

10. Anatomy of computer grid ReplicaCatalogue ResourceBrokerStorageElementComputingElement InformationService Job Status DataSets info Auth. &Auth. Job Submit Event Job Query Job Status Input “sandbox” Input “sandbox” + Broker Info Output “sandbox” Output “sandbox” Publish SE & CE info User interterface

11. Circuit simulation in grid infrastructure

12. Conclusion Application is in the test phase, deployment phase will start next year.