Acceleration of the method of moments calculations by using graphics processing units

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2130-2133

  Peng, Shaoxin ^a   Nie, Zaiping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Graphics processing unit (GPU); Hardware speed up; Matrix splitting algorithm; Method of moments (MoM); Numerical solution

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE CODING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TEXTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCELERATION RATIO; BREAK-UP; CONDUCTING OBJECTS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU); GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS (CPUS); IMPEDANCE MATRICES; MATRIX SPLITTING; SPEED UPS; SYSTEM MEMORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D);

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 47249103883     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.924768     Document Type: Article

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