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Porting a commercial finite difference time domain Electromagnetic code to a parallel architecture machine

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1996)

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This paper describes the PEPSE (Parallel Electromagnetic Problem Solving Environment) project, which is part of the ESPRIT funded Europort 2 project. PEPSE involved the porting of a Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Electromagetic (EM) code to a host of parallel architecture machines. This was performed using the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) message passing libraries. The paper describes the background to PEPSE, how the FDTD code was parallelised, the experience obtained through the porting activity, the resulting scalability and the industrial impact of the results.

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  1. British Aerospace Defence Ltd., Preston, Lancashire, UK

    M. L. Hargreaves, D. C. Spicer, C. C. R. Jones & S. Whittle

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  1. M. L. Hargreaves
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Heather Liddell Adrian Colbrook Bob Hertzberger Peter Sloot

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Hargreaves, M.L., Spicer, D.C., Jones, C.C.R., Whittle, S. (1996). Porting a commercial finite difference time domain Electromagnetic code to a parallel architecture machine. In: Liddell, H., Colbrook, A., Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1067. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_528

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