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Quartus II support of parallel processor compilation?

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1. How many processor cores of the same host machine are supported for parallel compilation (that work today)? 

2. How does the system administrator allocate physical memory to the parallel processors on the same machine to accomadate the Stratix IV device family physical memory requirements? 

 

Kindly provide some info to me. 

Thank you 

regards 

charley
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Altera_Forum
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Hi Charley, you may want to post this kind of question in the Quartus-specific forum, as that's the one I usually check the most frequently. 

 

To answer your questions: 

 

1. Quartus II can use up to 16 processors, though it usually uses no more than four except in certain operations. 

 

2. I'm not sure what this question means. Quartus only runs on PCs, which are all symmetric - that is, any process can access any memory installed on the computer. Therefore, there's no need to "allocate" memory to specific processors. Could you clarify what you meant by this question? 

 

Cheers,  

Adrian Ludwin 

Altera Corp.
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