Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP), 2011 Fourth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tianjin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1808-3
DOI :
10.1109/PAAP.2011.16
