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Title: The implementation of the upwind leapfrog scheme for 3D electromagnetic scattering on massively parallel computers

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/94009· OSTI ID:94009
 [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
  2. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

The upwind leapfrog scheme for electromagnetic scattering is briefly described. Its application to the 3D Maxwell`s time domain equations is shown in detail. The scheme`s use of upwind characteristic variables and a narrow stencil result in a smaller demand in communication overhead, making it ideal for implementation on distributed memory parallel computers. The algorithm`s implementation on two message passing computers, a 1024-processor nCUBE 2 and a 1840-processor Intel Paragon, is described. Performance evaluation demonstrates that the scheme performs well with both good scaling qualities and high efficiencies on these machines.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
94009
Report Number(s):
SAND-95-1322; ON: DE95015732
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jul 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English