Extended limits of WIPL-D on PCs

Author

Sumic, Drazen S. ; Kolundzija, Branko M.

Author_Institution

WIPL-D Ltd., Belgrade

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 April 2005

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

93

Abstract

In the process of electromagnetic modeling and simulation, one encounters various limits imposed by the hardware capabilities of modern computers. As the complexity or the electrical size of the problem grows, so does the need for faster processors and more RAM in order to make the analysis of such projects feasible. With the era of 64 bit computing at our door step, 4 GB is no longer the theoretical maximum addressable memory space on PC computers, which allows the analysis of demanding electromagnetic problems on every desktop. In this paper, several tests have been presented regarding the analysis of a cube of dimensions up to 30lambda times 30lambda times 30lambda. Significant advancements in modeling and analysis of electrically large structures in WIPL-D Pro code are the main focus. Tests include: running WIPL-D Pro code in the Windows and Linux 64-bit environments, employing 2 processors in parallel and speed comparisons between the latest and previous versions of the code

Keywords

Linux; computational electromagnetics; electromagnetic wave scattering; parallel algorithms; 64 bit; 64 bit computing; RAM; WIPL-D extended limits; addressable memory space; personal computers; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic modeling; Hardware; Linux; Personal communication networks; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Testing; 64 bit computing; WIPL-D; dual processor; more than 2GB of RAM;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, 2005. IEEE/ACES International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9068-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCACEM.2005.1469536

Filename

1469536