GPU accelerated EM modelling in frequency domain: Comparison of performance of various GPU cards

Author

Zoric, Dusan P. ; Olcan, Dragan I. ; Kolundzija, Branko M.

Author_Institution

WIPL-D d.o.o., Belgrade, Serbia

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 2 2012

Firstpage

918

Lastpage

921

Abstract

In this paper, we compared performances of different NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs in accelerating MoM based software for EM modelling in frequency domain, WIPL-D. Three different GeForce GPUs were used: GTX 480, GTX 580 and GTX 680. The performance was measured on three EM problems: PEC sphere, Luneburg lens, and microstrip patch antenna array placed at the helicopter fuselage. The best performance in matrix fill was achieved on GTX 580, and the best performance in matrix inversion was achieved on GTX 680. Also, it was shown that the most critical parameter for achieving better performance is GPU memory bandwidth.

Keywords

electrical engineering computing; electromagnetic fields; frequency-domain analysis; graphics processing units; lens antennas; matrix inversion; method of moments; microstrip antenna arrays; parallel architectures; EM systems; GPU accelerated EM modelling; GPU cards; GPU memory bandwidth; GTX 480; GTX 580; GTX 680; GeForce GPU; Luneburg lens antenna; MoM based software; NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPU; PEC sphere; WIPL-D; accelerating MoM based software; complex electromagnetic problem; frequency-domain analysis; general-purpose numerical techniques; helicopter fuselage; isotropic materials; linear materials; matrix inversion; method-of-moments; microstrip patch antenna array; piecewise homogeneous materials; time-harmonic numerical analysis; Acceleration; Bandwidth; Graphics processing units; Helicopters; Lenses; Moment methods; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2012 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nagoys

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1001-7

Type

conf

Filename

6393745