Performance analysis of parallel FDTD algorithm on different hardware platforms

Author

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

Author_Institution

Electromagn. Commun. Lab., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Rapid developments in computer techniques and high performance networks have led to the widespread use of the parallel FDTD method for solving large EM problems. It is well known that the FDTD method is an embarrassingly parallel algorithm, which can make an efficient use of a computer cluster to reduce the computation time almost linearly as the number of nodes is increased, provided that the code is structured correctly and is run on the dasiarightpsila platform. In this communication, we investigate the parallel performance of the parallel FDTD method on different hardware platforms.

Keywords

computational electromagnetics; finite difference time-domain analysis; parallel algorithms; workstation clusters; EM problems; computational electromagnetic; computer cluster; hardware platforms; high performance networks; parallel finite difference time domain algorithm; performance analysis; Acceleration; Concurrent computing; Costs; Finite difference methods; Hardware; Parallel processing; Performance analysis; Switches; Time domain analysis; Workstations; FDTD; cluster; high performance network; parallel processing technique;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2009.5171719

Filename

5171719