• DocumentCode
    2647714
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    1-5 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • 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;
  • 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.2009.5171722
  • Filename
    5171722