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README.md

Cluster Toolkit for Synopsys run and details

The page has a sample blueprint synopsys-blueprint.yaml which is design for EDA. It includes the following components:

  • Slurm cluster with H4D instances
  • Managed Lustre service - for apps directory
  • Filestore service - for Home directory
  • License server
  • Chrome Remote Desktop

Please update the blueprint with the correct Project ID . Then use the following command to deploy the cluster:

./gcluster deploy -w synopsys-blueprint.yaml

At finish, the cluster shall be up and running. It may take about an hour for the whole deployment:

Synopsys installation

List of files downloaded from Synopsys:

Download all these files from Synopsys SolvNetPlus Website:

  • Installer binary:
SynopsysInstaller_v5.9.run
  • Synopsys Common Licensing (SCL) binary:
scl_v2025.03-SP2_common.spf
scl_v2025.03-SP2_linux64.spf
scl_v2025.03-SP2_linuxaarch64.spf
  • hspice binary:
hspice_vX-2025.06-SP1_linux64.spf
  • VCS binary:
vcs_vW-2024.09-SP2-5_common.spf
vcs_vW-2024.09-SP2-5_linux64.spf
vcs_vW-2024.09-SP2-5_linux64.spf.part00
vcs_vW-2024.09-SP2-5_linux64.spf.part01
vcs_vW-2024.09-SP2-5_linux64.spf.part02

Installation of Synopsys software:

sudo yum install -y tcsh
sudo mkdir /apps/synopsys
sudo chmod 777 /apps/synopsys
sudo mkdir /apps/synopsys-source
sudo chmod 777 /apps/synopsys-source
cd /apps/synopsys-source
gcloud storage cp gs://<your-software-bucket>/* .
chmod 755 SynopsysInstaller_v5.9.run
./SynopsysInstaller_v5.9.run
./installer

Prompt will ask site ID, location of the spf files and installation location It will find all spf files and install everything

License:

SSH to the license server:

Please make the Installer and Synopsys Common Licensing (SCL) binary available in the license server. Run the installer application at finish: one will see this message:

Synopsys tools require that a supported version of Synopsys Common Licensing (SCL) be installed and serving the necessary licenses.

There are couple pre-requisites and steps needed to activate the license server:

sudo yum install -y fuse tcsh

use tcsh instead of bash and change to the binary location:

tcsh
cd /usr/synopsys/scl/2025.03-SP2/linux64/bin

As root: Run the following command:

./install_fnp.sh --cert

Output: Starting FNPLicensingService daemon as user thxxxxx Licensing Service daemon activated

Checking FNPLicensingService is running Configuration completed successfully.

Then running the lmhostid command to obtain the lmhostid for license file generation:

lmhostid -ptype VM -uuid

Output: lmhostid - Copyright (c) 1989-2024 Flexera. All Rights Reserved. The FlexNet host ID of this machine is "VM_UUID=1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

This UUID needs to be given to Synopsys for license file generation.

Applying license file:

WIP

Sample hspice job:

User can submit the job by leveaging the hspice-sample.job file in this repo:

Submit the job:

sbatch hspice-sample.job