Efficient parallel computational environment to perform electromagnetic simulations

Author

Silva-Santos, Carlos H. ; Miranda, Marco A M ; Hernández-Figueroa, Hugo E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microwave & Opt., State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2009

fDate

15-17 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This work presents an efficient high performance computational environment applied to process parallel and distributed electromagnetic applications. The procedure to validate this entire solution consists of two different tests, considering improvements in parallel performance and reduction in financial costs were considered. At first, various configurations were performed in the cluster in order to achieve an efficient parallel performance. The second sequence of test consider a parallel three-dimensional version of FDTD 3D with multi-dimensional distribution. In both tests the results present efficient performance and the financial costs were outstanding reduced with free software. In addition, the current infra-structure is flexible enough to be applied in different electromagnetic applications.

Keywords

computational electromagnetics; finite difference time-domain analysis; parallel processing; FDTD 3D; electromagnetic simulation; financial cost; high performance computing; multidimensional distribution; parallel computational environment; Application software; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Costs; Distributed computing; Finite difference methods; High performance computing; Software performance; Software testing; Time domain analysis; Bio-inspired Algorithms; Computational Electromagnetism; Computer Cluster; Finite Difference Time Domain Method; High Performance Computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2009 Mediterrannean

Conference_Location

Tangiers

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4664-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4665-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMS.2009.5409808

Filename

5409808