Title :
Acceleration of large-scale FDTD simulations on high performance GPU clusters
Author :
Ong, C. ; Weldon, M. ; Cyca, D. ; Okoniewski, M.
Author_Institution :
Acceleware Corp., Calgary, AB, Canada
Abstract :
In this paper,a scalable graphics processing unit (GPU) cluster solution for the acceleration of FDTD for large-scale simulations is proposed. The hardware and software implementations are described. To illustrate the speed performance of the cluster, the simulation results of a cubic resonator with PEC boundaries is presented. A realistic large-scale simulation performed using SEMCAD X from SPEAG, accelerated by Acceleware´s software libraries and GPU cluster solution is also presented.
Keywords :
finite difference time-domain analysis; large-scale systems; workstation clusters; GPU clusters; PEC boundaries; SEMCAD X; SPEAG; cubic resonator; graphics processing unit; large-scale FDTD simulations; Acceleration; Clustering algorithms; Computational modeling; Field programmable gate arrays; Finite difference methods; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Optical resonators; Throughput; Time domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Charleston, SC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3647-7
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2009.5171722
