Scalability of higher-order discontinuous galerkin FEM computations for solving electromagnetic wave propagation problems on GPU clusters

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3469-3472

  Godel, Nico ^a   Nunn, Nigel ^d   Warburton, Tim ^b   Clemens, Markus ^c  

^a HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

CUDA; discontinuous Galerkin; FEM; GPGPU; GPU computing; high order

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA TRANSFER; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

CUDA; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; GPGPU; GPU COMPUTING; HIGH-ORDER;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 77954857339     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2046022     Document Type: Article

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