Rivos Accelerates Chip Verification with Spillbox’s Hybrid Cloud Bursting Solution

As chip architectures become more complex, the demands of simulation workloads grow beyond them. Rivos™ Inc., a leader in high-performance and power-efficient server solutions built on RISC-V, has successfully adopted Spillbox’s Hybrid Cloud Bursting solution to scale its chip verification simulations with greater speed, reliability, and efficiency.

Scaling with Confidence

To maintain its rapid innovation cycle and meet tight time-to-market goals, Rivos needed a way to boost compute capacity without overcommitting to physical infrastructure or incurring high cloud costs. The company turned to Spillbox for a hybrid cloud solution that seamlessly extended its existing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workflows to the cloud, without requiring workflow rewrites or manual data syncs.

“Cost-effective, flexible access to compute capacity when designing complex solutions for the data center space is critical,” said Todd Broch, IT Lead and Technologist, Rivos Inc. “ Working with Spillbox has enabled us to address our dynamic compute demands to minimize schedule impact.”

Seamless Integration, Reliable Performance

Spillbox’s NFS caching handles On-Prem and Cloud path consistency automatically. Additionally, its support of workload manager Slurm provided zero cost integration. For Rivos, this meant instant portability of workflows and no disruption to existing simulation pipelines.

A key advantage of the deployment is Spillbox’s robust checkpointing and requeuing system. These features allow Rivos to take full advantage of low-cost AWS Spot Instances while minimizing the impact of interruption.

Efficient, Scalable, and Cost-Effective

By leveraging Spot Instances and Spillbox’s auto-scaling capabilities, Rivos gains access to a much larger pool of hardware at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud or on-prem expansion. Minimal idle resource costs, fine-grained control over file ingress and egress, and under 2.5% overhead for NFS caching cost, makes Spillbox a practical choice for high-volume simulation workloads.

“Rivos’ adoption of Spillbox marks a major step toward effortless, cost-effective cloud bursting for HPC and EDA,” said Alok Sinha, CEO of Spillbox. “We’re making cloud scalability simple and accessible.”

A Future-Proof Partnership

With Spillbox, Rivos now has the agility to meet growing compute demands without compromising on performance, cost, or workflow integrity. This strategic deployment strengthens Rivos’s ability to continue developing industry-leading, workload-defined server solutions.

About Rivos

Rivos is redefining AI with scalable, high-performance Data Center solutions built with tightly coupled CPU and GPGPU technologies. Its unified platform supports end-to-end AI workloads, by combining custom RISC-V CPUs and GPGPU accelerators with a full software stack. Enabling flexible AI solutions with energy-efficient, scalable performance. Built for today’s demands and tomorrow’s innovations. Visit www.rivosinc.com to learn more about Rivos.

About Spillbox

Spillbox provides an adaptive cloud bursting solution that seamlessly expands on-premise workload to the cloud in the real time, enabling accelerated time-to-market while ensuring scalability and cost efficiency. Founded in 2019, Spillbox serves HPC and semiconductor design teams worldwide. Visit www.spillbox.io to learn more.