Title :
A novel hardware acceleration technique for high performance parallel FDTD method
Author :
Wenhua Yu ; Xiaoling Yang ; Yongjun Liu
Author_Institution :
2COMU, State College, PA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we introduce one novel hardware acceleration technique based on a vector unit built in a regular CPU for high performance electromagnetic simulation tools. We investigate the performance of parallel conformal FDTD method on the Intel and AMD processors accelerated by the Vector Arithmetic Logic Unit (VALU), high performance cluster, and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). The FDTD method that is parallel in nature is one of the most popular numerical methods to simulate various electromagnetic problems and phenomenon. Several examples are employed to demonstrate the engineering applications of parallel conformal FDTD method based on the VALU acceleration.
Keywords :
computational electromagnetics; computer graphic equipment; coprocessors; finite difference time-domain analysis; floating point arithmetic; multiprocessing systems; vector processor systems; AMD processors; FDTD method; Intel processors; VALU; electromagnetic problems; electromagnetic simulation tools; graphics processing unit; hardware acceleration technique; numerical methods; parallel conformal method; regular CPU; vector arithmetic logic unit; Acceleration; Computational modeling; Computers; Finite difference methods; Graphics processing unit; Time domain analysis; FDTD; SSE; VALU; hardware acceleration;
Conference_Titel :
Electromagnetics, Applications and Student Innovation (iWEM), 2011 IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-462-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-61284-461-9
DOI :
10.1109/iWEM.2011.6021490
