Large electromagnetic simulation by hybrid approach on large-scale parallel computing systems

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3184-3204

  Alexandru, Mihai ^a,b   Monteil, Thierry ^a,b   Lorenz, Petr ^c   Coccetti, Fabio ^a   Aubert, Hervé ^a,b  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Lorenz Solutions   (Germany)

Author keywords

grid computing; high performance computing; large scale systems; mode matching method; time prediction model; transmission line matrix method

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FORECASTING; GRID COMPUTING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MESSAGE PASSING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TRANSMISSIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPUTATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LARGE AND COMPLEX STRUCTURES; LARGE-SCALE PARALLEL COMPUTING; MODE MATCHING METHOD; PARALLEL TRANSMISSION LINES; TIME PREDICTIONS; TRANSMISSION LINE MATRIX METHODS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84939480797     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3218     Document Type: Article

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