Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2009 Mediterrannean
Conference_Location :
Tangiers
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4664-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4665-0
DOI :
10.1109/MMS.2009.5409808
