Hypercube parallel architecture applied to electromagnetic scattering analysis

Journal Article · Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions on Magnetics; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/20.34318· OSTI ID:5347242

Calalo, R H; Cwik, T A; Imbriale, W A; Jacobi, N; Liewer, P C; Lockhart, T G; Lyzenga, G A; Patterson, J E ^[1]

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1. California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA (USA). Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center

The Hypercube is a general purpose computing tool for scientific applications. Investigators use the Mark III hypercube for numerical simulations in a variety of disciplines. To the list of analysis codes running on the Hypercube, the authors add two electromagnetic codes, the Numerical Eelctromagnetic Code (NEC) and the Finite Difference Time Domain Code (FDTD). They evaluate the execution times for these codes. For both the NEC and FDTD codes, they found large speedup factors when they compared runs on 32 nodes to runs on 1 node and to runs on a VAX 11/750. They verify the accuracy of these codes by comparisons with versions running on sequential machines and with published results.

• OSTI ID: 5347242
• Journal Information: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions on Magnetics; (USA), Journal Name: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions on Magnetics; (USA) Vol. 25:4; ISSN IEMGA; ISSN 0018-9464
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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