Quartus II 8.0 web edition : multi processor

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, 

 In Quartus II 8 web edition, it seems there is no multi processor support anymore. can you confirm that ?  In Quartus II 7 Web Edition, there is.  It's a question before downloading 1.2 GB :p .  Thanks.

[Altera_Forum]

That is correct, parallel compilation was available in the web edition until 7.2 but is no longer supported by the web edition as of 8.0. 

 Cheers, Adrian Ludwin Altera Corp.

[Altera_Forum]

Thanks for clearing this up. I guess asking "why" is useless.  

 What about multiple cores? Does a dual core CPU have benefit over single cores in web editions? 7.2? 8.0?

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  What about multiple cores? Does a dual core CPU have benefit over single cores in web editions? 7.2? 8.0?  --- Quote End ---    We use the term "parallel compilation" to cover both multiple cores on a chip and multiple chips on a board, so dual-core CPUs will not show any benefit due to parallelism as of 8.0 (parallel compilation was still enabled in 7.2 web edition).   However, Intel's dual-core processors generally have a large shared L2 cache - 6MB on the latest models - which Quartus will happily use. In addition, if you're sweeping multiple options to try to close timing (eg by using DSE), you'll still be able to use those extra cores to increase your throughput.  Cheers, Adrian Ludwin Altera Corp.

[Altera_Forum]

Thank you Adrian!