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By now the EDA community should know that cloud computing in the industry is inevitable. Most CPU-time hungry tasks (e.g., logic simulation, extraction, physical verification) in the design flow cannot substantially be improved at the algorithmic level. Thus we must rely on massive parallelism to reduce wall time to acceptable levels. And since nobody wants to buy and manage compute farms of thousands of nodes for peak usage, using a public cloud is the next natural step.

But this is a hard step.