VALU, AVX and GPU Acceleration Techniques for Parallel FDTD Methods (Computing and Networks) - Hardcover

Yu, Wenhua; Yang, Xiaoling; Li, Wenxing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1613531745 ISBN 13: 9781613531747

Publisher: SciTech Publishing Inc, 2013

Synopsis

This book introduces a general hardware acceleration technique that can significantly speed up finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations and their applications to engineering problems without requiring any additional hardware devices. It provides detailed code demonstration and analysis to help readers get the step-by-step guidelines using the vector arithmetic logic units (VALU) in the CPU and demonstrates the detailed implementation techniques of VALU to the parallel FDTD method and presents a large number of engineering applications. It also introduces the cloud computing concept and engineering applications and presents a 3D parallel FDTD code, accelerated by using the VALU.

• The authors of this book were previously university researchers who built a successful commercial enterprise based on their superior computer performance in electromagnetics simulations and “number-crunching”
• The multi-core CPU computers and multiple CPU work stations are popular today for scientific research and engineering computing.
• This book introduces a general hardware acceleration technique that can significantly speed up FDTD simulations and their applications to engineering problems without requiring any additional hardware devices.

About this title

About the Authors

Dr Wenhua Yu has worked on the topics related to FDTD method, software development techniques, parallel processing techniques, and engineering applications for many years, and has published more than 150 technical papers and six books on the parallel FDTD methods and simulation techniques. Dr. Wenhua Yu is the general co-chair of several international conferences on the topic of computational electromagnetics, antennas and microwave circuits. Dr. Wenhua Yu is a senior member of IEEE.

Along with Dr Wenhua Yu, Mr Xiaoling Yang are the primary developers of the GEMS software package.

Prof. Wenxing Li is an expert in the computational electromagnetic method, antenna design, and electromagnetic compatibility.

Edition details

• Publisher: SciTech Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1613531745
• ISBN 13: 9781613531747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238