@InProceedings{moran:imad, author = {David Moran and Gary Ditlow and Daria Dooling and Ralph Williams and Tom Wilkins}, title = {Integrated Manufacturing and Design}, booktitle = {Proceedings of SC99: High Performance Networking and Computing}, year = {1999}, month = {November}, publisher = {ACM Press and IEEE Computer Society Press}, address = {Portland, OR}, URL = {http://www.sc99.org/proceedings/papers/moran.pdf}, keywords = {manufacturing, integrated chip, parallel I/O, pario-bib}, comment = {They describe "IMaD", a parallel code that used to support product engineering of full-scale integrated circuits. The code itself simulates the entire integrated circuit to address three primary apects of product engineering: to assure the an IC is manufacturable, to monitor its lifetime yeild and reliability, and to support IC test and failure analysis. The simulation is computationally, memory and I/O intensive. While the paper primarily describes the model and the simulation equations, the talk addressed the issue of parallel I/O, where the data for each processor was written to a separate disk. Not exactly a novel approach, but it emphasises the fact that the I/O requirements are large enough that they used an approach other than a standard serial method.} }