Enhancing EDA Workloads with BlueXP and NetApp Storage
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads present unique challenges that demand high IOPS and throughput from shared network storage. Running multiple EDA jobs simultaneously requires significant resources that on-premises environments may struggle to provide. NetApp's BlueXP addresses these challenges by leveraging the cloud's unlimited compute power alongside high-performing NetApp storage solutions. Users can seamlessly migrate or burst data to the cloud as needed, optimizing not just storage but the entire development cycle.
Unified Hybrid Storage Infrastructure for EDA
To streamline EDA operations, NetApp offers a unified hybrid storage infrastructure powered by Cloud Volumes ONTAP. Users can control all ONTAP-based storage solutions for EDA workloads through a single console, simplifying data management across on-premises and cloud environments. Leveraging Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows for fully managed solutions running on native cloud resources like Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files, and Cloud Volumes Service. Automation capabilities via RESTful API calls further enhance operational efficiency.
Accelerating Operations with Cloud Bursting
NetApp's Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables organizations to accelerate operations by seamlessly bursting data to the cloud, surpassing on-premises performance limits. The caching mechanism optimizes data transfers, only uploading necessary data to the cloud while reducing storage footprint by 90%. This approach ensures that relevant data remains available across multiple environments with minimal data replication. By adopting cloud bursting, organizations can efficiently scale their operations and enhance performance.
Scalability and Performance for EDA Workloads
NetApp's Cloud Volumes ONTAP allows EDA workloads to scale up while maintaining the required storage performance levels. By integrating the cloud's unlimited infrastructure resources with NetApp's scale-out storage performance, organizations can dynamically adjust storage and compute resources to meet workload demands. Fully managed cloud storage services decrease management overhead, while ONTAP's high parallelism, metadata operations, and IOPS ensure optimal performance for demanding EDA file workloads.
Additional Resources and Best Practices
NetApp offers a range of best practices and resources tailored to EDA workloads, including technical reports on EDA best practices in ONTAP, deployment guides for NetApp FlexCache with Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and insights on cloud bursting. Users can explore additional NetApp solutions for EDA to further optimize their workflows and enhance productivity.