Mapping electromagnetic field computations to parallel processors

Author

Tatalias, Kosmo D. ; Bornholdt, James M.

Author_Institution

Atlantic Aerosp. Electron Corp., Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

25

Issue

4

fYear

1989

fDate

7/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2901

Lastpage

2906

Abstract

An introduction to parallel processing for the electromagnetic analyst is presented. Scaled speedup is explained, and the use of SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) and MIMD (multiple instruction, multiple data) machines is discussed. Methods of electromagnetic field computation (method of moments, finite-difference time domain, finite-element method, spectral iteration) are broadly surveyed to indicate which characteristics make them amenable to parallel processing and which architectures are best suited to those characteristics

Keywords

electrical engineering computing; electromagnetic field theory; parallel processing; MIMD; SIMD; electromagnetic field computations; finite-difference time domain; finite-element method; method of moments; multiple data; multiple instruction; parallel architectures; parallel processing; parallel processors; scaled speedup; single instruction; spectral iteration; Aerospace electronics; Arithmetic; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic fields; Finite difference methods; Iterative algorithms; Moment methods; Parallel processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.34319

Filename

34319