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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Toronto, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4967-5
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2010.5562177
