Parallel FDTD simulation using NUMA acceleration technique

Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-8

  Guo, X M ^a   Guo, Q X ^a   Zhao, W ^b   Yu, W H ^c  

^a State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence Production Technology and Systems   (China)

^b HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION ALGORITHM; ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE; COMPUTING PERFORMANCE; FDTD METHOD; FDTD SIMULATIONS; NON UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS; PARALLEL APPLICATION; TEST CASE;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855840108     PISSN: 19376480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERL11101706     Document Type: Article

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