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In this paper we assess the use of high performance computing in design space exploration of a complex highly parameterized very long instruction word based system-on-a-chip platform. Experiments show that the conventional belief of linear decrease in exploration time as the number of available processors increases is discredited starting from a relatively low number of processors mainly due to communication...