Augusto Berndt

I substituted the recent odb shared by @oharboe on the artificat previously sent. When I run the run-me for stage 3-1 I see these messages and it takes around 2...

> [@gudeh](https://github.com/gudeh) what is the status on this? Apologies, everyone. I’ve spent a good amount of time investigating the megaboom divergence issue, but I haven’t yet pinpointed the exact cause....

I just noticed Ethan is working on a nice feature to evaluate internal metrics in OpenROAD, this can help a lot!

I used your script to run nangate45/black_parrot which is larger with 255K instances versus the experimented design (megaboom) with 159 instances. ``` Threads Real User 1 10:23.03 621.52 2 10:22.82...

I also ran nangate45/swerv with vtune, which also shows that we seem to do a poor job on multi-threading so far 

I ran our test-CI with different threads and made a script to fetch gpl runtimes from logs. This are the runtimes with different thread counts for the 18 largest designs,...

Reordered by running time. Units are in minutes.  

> Do these tests run alone in serial or are they running all at the same time on the same computer? > > My concern is that the system performance...

> @gudeh What is your conclusion? Hi @oharboe , I got really puzzled after running the CI test and 2 threads showed less runtime than other thread counting I did...

The routability iterations failed to reduce the routing congestion (RC) below the minRC threshold three times. As a result, the process gave up and reverted to the saved snapshot. [However,...