Altair FlowTracer 2024.1.0
FlowTracer is a complete system to create, manage, and execute design flows.
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An advanced mission critical dependency management platform for developing and executing flows.
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When using FlowTracer in large deployments, three main roles emerge: Administrator, Developer and User. In smaller organizations, a given person may have multiple roles, but the duties of each role still exist.
FlowTracer is derived from the system "VOV" originally developed at UC-Berkeley. The word "VOV" is not an acronym, but can be thought of as a contraction of the word "evolve".
The act of requesting FlowTracer to bring a particular target up-to-date is sometimes called a Retrace Request or more simply a Retrace.
The tool vovshow is used to show things like jobs, retrace requests, the project itself.
The vovselect command provides a way to retrieve specific data from the vovserver, with filtering done on the server side. This method is differs from some of the VTK calls, which get all data and require processing on the client side to get the data of interest.
The utility vovtouch toggles the status of the given nodes twice, so that each node passes through a state of being INVALID. The end state of each node depends on what state it started in.
The tool vovcleandir is used to delete unused files.
Forgetting nodes means eliminating them from the flow.
To remove a file from the file system which is currently registered in a flow graph, you should notify FlowTracer that the file is going away. The simple way to do this is to use the vovblast command.
The tool vovremove offers advanced management of file system disk space
This chapter will cover how you can use your web browser to manage FlowTracer.
The Altair Accelerator products have a rich set of programs that can be run on the shell command line.
Altair Accelerator includes a subsystem for managing computing resources. This allows the design team to factor in various constraints regarding hardware and software resources, as well as site policy constraints.
Renaming of nodes is a task for more advanced users. In most cases, it is simpler to forget all nodes and rebuild the trace from scratch.
This manual is aimed at the person who will be the administrator for FlowTracer. This person will be responsible for configuring the network resources, setting up the licensing, and establishing security and access rules for the system.
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