The high-speed computation on a distributed personal computer network by our distributed FDTD method

Author

Takada, Naoki ; Ito, Tomoyoshi ; Motojima, Kuniyuki ; Ideo, Mitsuomi ; Sato, Taichi ; Kozaki, Shogo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Control. Eng., Oyama Nat. Coll. of Technol., Tochigi, Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

273

Lastpage

276

Abstract

The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method is a numerical technique that can be used to solve electromagnetic boundary value problems in the time domain. However, this method requires large computer memory space and a long computation time. Distributed FDTD method is an improved FDTD method for overcoming this difficulty. We have developed our method with overlapping points for making the program easier. This paper describes our method and its implementations on a low-cost personal computer (PC) network. Finally, we confirm the high-speed computation with our method

Keywords

boundary-value problems; distributed algorithms; electrical engineering computing; electromagnetism; finite difference time-domain analysis; local area networks; physics computing; LAN; distributed FDTD method; distributed PC network; electromagnetic BVP solution; electromagnetic boundary value problems; finite-difference time-domain method; high-speed computation; large-scale EM problems; numerical technique; personal computer network; time domain; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Electronic mail; Finite difference methods; Large-scale systems; Maxwell equations; Microcomputers; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2000 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6435-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2000.925786

Filename

925786