Massively parallel conformal FDTD on a bluegene supercomputer

IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 335-341

  Yu, Wenhua ^a   Hashemi, M R ^a   Mittra, Raj ^a   de Araujo, D N ^b   Cases, Moises ^b   Pham, N ^b   Matoglu, E ^b   Patel, Pravin ^b   Herrman, B ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

BlueGene L supercomputer; Parallel finite difference time domain (FDTD); Parallel full wave solver; Scalability and efficiency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECT; PARALLEL FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; PARALLEL FULL-WAVE SOLVER;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 34249816483     PISSN: 15213323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TADVP.2007.895993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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