> Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) feels like the most transformational technology that the fewest developers know about. It’s a novel testing technique made popular by the FoundationDB team
It's not novel. That's how hardware (ASIC) testing has been done forever. The novelty is applying it to software.
> TigerBeetle’s VOPR is the single largest DST cluster on the planet. It runs on 1,000 CPU cores
Only if you exclude hardware, otherwise basically every chip design company has a cluster bigger than this.
Leading edge photo mask synthesis is easily in the top 5 most computationally demanding things out there. You need an actual supercomputer to solve these problems on meaningful (competitive) timescales.
It's not novel. That's how hardware (ASIC) testing has been done forever. The novelty is applying it to software.
> TigerBeetle’s VOPR is the single largest DST cluster on the planet. It runs on 1,000 CPU cores
Only if you exclude hardware, otherwise basically every chip design company has a cluster bigger than this.