• DocumentCode
    1900006
  • Title

    A comparative study of hardware acceleration techniques in computational electromagnetics (CEM)

  • Author

    Yu, Wenhua ; Liu, Yongjun ; Yang, Xiaoling ; Muto, Akira ; Mittra, Raj

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of EE, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    11-17 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we discuss some of the new developments in parallel processing techniques in the context of computational electromagnetics. We present the results of a performance study of the parallel FDTD algorithm running on various hardware platforms, such as a high performance cluster, a PC cluster, multi-core processor, GPU, and IBM CELL processor, for both Windows and Linux operating systems. The results show that the FDTD method is extremely well suited for parallel platforms.
  • Keywords
    computational electromagnetics; finite difference time-domain analysis; FDTD algorithm; GPU; IBM CELL processor; PC cluster; computational electromagnetics; hardware acceleration techniques; hardware platforms; high performance cluster; multi-core processor; parallel processing techniques; Computational modeling; Finite difference methods; Hardware; Operating systems; Portable computers; Time domain analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, ON
  • ISSN
    1522-3965
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4967-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2010.5562177
  • Filename
    5562177