Comparison Study of Performance of Parallel Steady State Solver on Different Computer Architectures

Author

Soveiko, Nick ; Nakhla, Michel S. ; Achar, Ramachandra

Volume

Issue

fYear

2010

Firstpage

Lastpage

Abstract

A parallel solver for steady state analysis of nonlinear circuits is presented. The solver uses the Message Passing Interface specification for communications and is suitable for steady state simulation of very large nonlinear circuits. Performance of the solver is investigated on symmetric multiprocessing, non-uniform memory access, and distributed memory computer systems. Impact of memory subsystem constraints on the solver efficiency is evaluated.

Keywords

Circuit analysis; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; Memory management; Message passing; Nonlinear circuits; Performance analysis; Steady-state; Distributed memory systems; Jacobian matrices; frequency domain analysis; harmonic analysis; nonlinear circuits; parallel architectures; shared memory systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0070

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCAD.2009.2034499

Filename

5356288

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1360868