Improving Parallel FDTD Method Performance Using SSE Instructions

Author

Zhang, Lihong ; Yu, Wenhua

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Eng. Commun., Univ. of China, Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

59

Abstract

Electromagnetic researchers are often faced with long execution time and therefore algorithmic and implementation-level optimization can dramatically increase the overall performance of electromagnetism simulation using FDTD method. In this paper, we focus on acceleration implementation of 3D parallel FDTD method by taking advantage of the extended instruction sets found in modern processors, in particular the SSE instruction set. We present a SSE version of 3D Parallel FDTD Method that results in a considerable 3x speedup.

Keywords

electromagnetism; electronic engineering computing; finite difference time-domain analysis; instruction sets; parallel processing; 3D parallel FDTD method performance improvement; SSE instruction set; electromagnetism simulation; finite difference time domain; implementation-level optimization; Acceleration; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Finite difference methods; Mathematical model; Three dimensional displays; Time domain analysis; FDTD; SSE; parallel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP), 2011 Fourth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tianjin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAAP.2011.16

Filename

6128476