DocumentCode
624227
Title
Performance analysis of using GPU computing in MATLAB to simulate electromagnetic fields generated by current carrying wire
Author
Wright, C.M.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Software Eng., Embry-Riddle Aeronaut. Univ., Daytona Beach, FL, USA
fYear
2013
fDate
4-7 April 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
This paper documents a performance analysis of using CUDA in MATLAB to simulate the magnetic field generated by current running through a wire using the Biot-Savart law. It was found that the number of threads executing in a CUDA kernel varies the execution time linearly and the number of threads per block should be set to a power of 2 to optimize performance during runtime.
Keywords
computational electromagnetics; electromagnetic fields; graphics processing units; multi-threading; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; Biot-Savart law; CUDA; GPU computing; MATLAB; current carrying wire; electromagnetic field simulation; execution time variation; magnetic field simulation; performance analysis; performance optimization; thread execution; Computational modeling; Graphics processing units; Instruction sets; Kernel; MATLAB; Magnetic fields; Wires;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Southeastcon, 2013 Proceedings of IEEE
Conference_Location
Jacksonville, FL
ISSN
1091-0050
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-0052-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SECON.2013.6567444
Filename
6567444
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