Semiconductor companies are taking advantage of Microsoft Azure high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures for their complex electronic design automation (EDA) software. In this article, Michael Requa, Microsoft Senior Program Manager, and Rosemary Francis, Altair Chief Scientist, describe a use case.
A semiconductor company used Altair Breeze, an I/O profiling tool, to troubleshoot and tune its power integrity and sign-off workload before and after migrating it to Azure. Breeze revealed I/O patterns that had previously gone unnoticed and showed the migration team how to significantly improve application runtime and help the customer lower costs.