Title :
Fast and accurate time-domain simulations with commodity graphics hardware
Author :
Baron, Gerard S. ; Sarris, Costas D. ; Fiume, Eugene
Author_Institution :
Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
We show the efficacy of graphics hardware for the computational electrodynamics community. In particular, we illustrate how this hardware can be used to accelerate a general purpose finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation through a set of image processing operations. While achieving a significant speedup, our simulation yields comparable accuracy to that of a consonant software implementation.
Keywords :
computational electromagnetics; computer graphics; electrical engineering computing; electrodynamics; finite difference time-domain analysis; image processing; commodity graphics hardware; computational electrodynamics; finite-difference time-domain simulation; general purpose FDTD simulation; image processing operations; speedup; Acceleration; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Equations; Finite difference methods; Hardware; Image processing; Kernel; Material properties; Time domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2005 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8883-6
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2005.1552619
