• DocumentCode
    1382445
  • Title

    Low-Frequency MLFMA on Graphics Processors

  • Author

    Cwikla, M. ; Aronsson, J. ; Okhmatovski, V.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
  • Volume
    9
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7/2/1905 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    8
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    A parallelization of the low-frequency multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) for graphics processing units (GPUs) is presented. The implementation exhibits speedups between 10 and 30 compared to a serial CPU implementation of the algorithm. The error of the MLFMA on the GPU is controllable down to machine precision. Under the typical method-of-moments (MoM) error requirement of three correct digits, modern GPUs are shown to handle problems with up to 7.5 million degrees of freedom in dense matrix approximation.
  • Keywords
    computer graphic equipment; coprocessors; method of moments; multivalued logic; GPU; dense matrix approximation; graphics processing units; graphics processors; low-frequency MLFMA; low-frequency multilevel fast multipole algorithm; machine precision; method-of-moments error; serial CPU implementation; CUDA; fast algorithms; graphics processing unit (GPU); low-frequency fast multipole method; multiscale modeling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1225
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LAWP.2010.2040571
  • Filename
    5382596