Title :
Acceleration study for the FDTD method using SSE and AVX instructions
Author :
Zhang, Lihong ; Yang, Xiaoling ; Yu, Wenhua
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Eng., Commun. Univ. of China, Beijing, China
Abstract :
In this paper, we discuss the acceleration effect for the FDTD method using SSE and AVX instructions. We developed three types of code: code developed by C language, code accelerated by SSE instructions and code accelerated by AVX instructions. We present the results of a performance study of the FDTD algorithm on Intel i5 Sandy Bridge. The results show that we can improve the performance of FDTD algorithm using SSE and AVX instructions.
Keywords :
C language; computational electromagnetics; finite difference time-domain analysis; floating point arithmetic; instruction sets; parallel processing; AVX instruction; C language; FDTD method; Intel i5 Sandy Bridge; SSE instructions; acceleration effect; advanced vector extension; code acceleration; Acceleration; Boundary conditions; Computational modeling; Finite difference methods; Instruction sets; Time domain analysis; Vectors; AVX; Acceleration; FDTD; SSE;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet), 2012 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yichang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1414-6
DOI :
10.1109/CECNet.2012.6201608
