Analysis of parallel performance of MPI based parallel FDTD on supercomputer

Author

Shugang Jiang ; Zhaofeng Lv ; Yu Zhang ; Bing Wei ; Xunwang Zhao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Xidian Univ., Xi´an, China

fYear

2013

fDate

14-16 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

With the development of multi-core processors, computer clusters and the application of parallel MPI technique, the study of electromagnetic fields numerical arithmetic can improve the capacity of solving large problems. In this paper, based on the platform from National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin (NSCC-TJ: Ranked first in the world in 2010.11), some tests about the parallel efficiency of the parallel FDTD code are made to provide a general rule for a best performance of FDTD on multi-core computers. The results show that following this rule, we can achieve the highest computational efficiency on a more advanced platform.

Keywords

application program interfaces; computational electromagnetics; electromagnetic fields; finite difference time-domain analysis; mainframes; message passing; multiprocessing systems; parallel programming; software performance evaluation; NSCC-TJ; National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin; computer clusters; electromagnetic fields; multicore computers; multicore processors; numerical arithmetic; parallel FDTD code efficiency; parallel MPI technique; parallel performance analysis; supercomputer; multi-core computers; parallel FDTD; parallel efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference 2013, IET International

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-84919-603-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2013.0486

Filename

6624650