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HPC Pros Co-Located Conference at DAC 2020 Changes

April 1, 2020
Derek Magill
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Grid Computing, Info, License Management, Storage Management
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Due to the unprecedented global impact of the novel corornavirus pandemic, the HPC Pros Board of Directors is announcing that this year's Co-Located Conference at DAC will not continue in person as originally planned. In addition, the usual Evening Networking Event is cancelled. This was a difficult decision to make. The CELUG conference has been [...]

Design Infrastructure Alley, CELUG Conference at DAC 2019!

April 16, 2019
Derek Magill
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Cloud, Data Security, Grid Computing, License Management, Storage Management

Register Now!If you are planning on attending CELUG, simply register for CELUG and you will get floor / Design Infrastructure Alley access. If you are primarily interested in the Design Infrastructure Alley, be sure to sign up for the FREE "I Love DAC" promotion while it lasts and use promo code DACILDDM. Sunday Workshop, 8:00 [...]

How To Gracefully Drain License Checkouts From A Flex Server

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A Tale of Two Architectures (History of Semiconductor Computing, Part IV)

April 9, 2018
Derek Magill
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Cloud, Data Security, Grid Computing, License Management, Storage Management

Where The World Is Heading Let's take a brief moment and take a look at one of the hottest topics in Information Technology today: The Cloud. The Cloud is many a splendored thing. It is a source of infinite resources. It is a cost saving panacea. It promises to reduce overhead. It uses python, which [...]

My Wish List for FlexNet Publisher

It's Good To Want Things In my previous post, My Wish List for FlexNet Manager, I detailed what I would like to see from a license analytics perspective. However, there is another product from Flexera that I use which I pay for indirectly -- FlexNet Publisher. This product showcases the oddity of Flexera's internal business structure. [...]

My Wish List for FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications

FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Background FNMEA is all about getting insights into your license usage. Back in the GLOBETrotter days, companies used SAMSuite in order to get at the “encrypted” data in the ReportLog files. I use quotation marks because this encryption is not really encryption at all. It is more akin to […]

Chokepoints: Interest Payments on Technical Debt (History of Semiconductor Computing, Part III)

March 10, 2018
Derek Magill
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Cloud, Data Security, Grid Computing, Info, License Management, Storage Management

Choke Points -- Interest Payments on Technical Debt Now that we've reviewed "how we got here" in Part I and Part II, let's talk about the impact these forces have on the daily lives of IT Professionals and Engineers alike. Most of us are familiar, at least instinctually, with the concept of technical debt. As [...]

A Brief History Of Semiconductor Computing (Part II)

February 4, 2018
Derek Magill
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Cloud, Data Security, Grid Computing, License Management, Storage Management

Origin of the Species Now that we have seen the technical and economic forces which shaped the modern EDA/HPC environment from Part I, let's take a closer look at the implication of the intersection of all of these forces. Grid Computing In the early days of engineering grid computing, it was not unheard of for [...]

A Brief History Of Semiconductor Computing (Part I)

January 23, 2018
Derek Magill
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Cloud, Data Security, Grid Computing, License Management, Storage Management

The Origin of the Species -- How Today's Semiconductor Environments Evolved The current paradigm for Semiconductor computing dates back to the 1990's. It was a heady time for the industry -- the Internet was a nascent technology and PC's were becoming more commonplace in both businesses and homes. There was growth everywhere for chip makers [...]