Time-Domain Computational Electromagnetics Algorithms for GPU Based Computers

Author

So, Poman P M

Author_Institution

Victoria Univ., Victoria

fYear

2007

fDate

9-12 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Time-domain computational electromagnetic algorithms such as FDTD and TLM require computers with superb processing power and large memory capacity. Grid computing network, cluster computer and massively parallel supercomputers have been the hardware of choices for running powerful modelling tools based on these methods. As a result, high performance modelling tools are only available to elite groups of researchers and big corporations. Stream computing, a new technology that harnesses the tremendous numerical processing power of advanced graphics processing units for general purpose numerical computation, is going to bring high performance time-domain modelling tools to the EM community. This paper reviews the emerging GPU technologies and programming models. Two modelling examples are also used to illustrate the suitability of GPU computing for time-domain electromagnetics.

Keywords

computational electromagnetics; computer graphic equipment; finite difference time-domain analysis; grid computing; parallel processing; GPU based computer; cluster computer; general purpose numerical computation; graphics processing unit; grid computing network; high performance modelling tool; parallel supercomputer; programming model; stream computing technology; time-domain computational electromagnetics algorithm; Clustering algorithms; Computational electromagnetics; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Finite difference methods; Grid computing; Hardware; High performance computing; Supercomputers; Time domain analysis; CEM; GPU Computing; Stream Computing; TLM; Time Domain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROCON, 2007. The International Conference on "Computer as a Tool"

Conference_Location

Warsaw

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0813-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0813-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURCON.2007.4400480

Filename

4400480