Title :
MAGIC electromagnetic FDTD PIC code linux cluster performance
Author :
Woods, Andrew J. ; Rhoades, David L. ; Cavey, Lester W. ; Hall, G. Robert ; Ludeking, Lars D.
Author_Institution :
Alliant Techsystems (ATK), Newington, VA
Abstract :
The MAGIC electromagnetic FDTD PIC code run on the ATK Linux cluster using the Intel compiler and MPICH2 message passing interface is shown to gain a factor of 8.4times over state-of-the-art PCs.
Keywords :
Linux; computational electromagnetics; finite difference time-domain analysis; message passing; program compilers; ATK Linux cluster; Intel compiler; MAGIC; MPICH2; electromagnetic finite difference time domain particle-in-cell code; message passing interface; Art; Finite difference methods; Linux; Message passing; Performance gain; Personal communication networks; Statistics; Testing; Time domain analysis; Timing; Linux cluster; MAGIC; MPICH2; OSCAR; electromagnetic FDTD PIC code;
Conference_Titel :
Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2008. IVEC 2008. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1715-5
DOI :
10.1109/IVELEC.2008.4556515
