A suitable computing architecture and its algorithm for parallel FDTD

Author

Yuan, Bin ; Zhang, Yao ; Wang, Xiu

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Minist. of Educ. of China for Res. of Design & EMC of High Speed Electron. Syst., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2011

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

69

Abstract

Increasing need for solving complex or large scale electromagnetic problem makes parallel FDTD much important now. In this paper, two key factors for efficient parallel FDTD system are clarified first, which are “the number of parallel computing units” and “the number of parallel data exchanging units (PDEU)”. The reason why the traditional parallel FDTD system is not suitable for large scale parallel computing is disclosed. A more reasonable computing structure for overcoming the problem is presented based on PDEU. Scalable Coherent Boundary (SCI) protocol is introduced to realize PDEU and the new parallel FDTD system. The new system provides a 40% speed-up increase comparing with the older one.

Keywords

computational electromagnetics; finite difference time-domain analysis; parallel architectures; computing architecture; electromagnetic problem; parallel FDTD system; parallel computing units; parallel data exchanging units; scalable coherent boundary protocol; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Finite difference methods; Handheld computers; Parallel processing; Protocols; Time domain analysis; FDTD; large-scale electromagnetic scattering; parallel computing; parallel data exchanging unit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2011 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2034-5

Type

conf

Filename

6173687