Efficient Parallelization of Electromagnetic Field Computations on a Beowulf Cluster
| Autor: | Philippe Ravier, Khaled Rouabah, Rachid Harba, Salaheddine Mezaache, Farid Bouttout |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire d'Electronique et Electromagnétisme (L2E), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Laboratoire pluridisciplinaire de recherche en ingénierie des systèmes, mécanique et énergétique (PRISME), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Centre Val de Loire (INSA CVL), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Département Images, Robotique, Automatique et Signal [Orléans] (IRAUS), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Centre Val de Loire (INSA CVL) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Speedup
Computer Networks and Communications Frequency band Computer science Gigabit Ethernet Parallel computing Supercomputer Microstrip antenna Hardware and Architecture Signal Processing Media Technology Computational electromagnetics Node (circuits) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Antenna (radio) [SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS |
| Zdroj: | International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation, Praise Worthy Prize, 2018, 8 (2), pp.103. ⟨10.15866/irecap.v8i2.13421⟩ |
| ISSN: | 2039-5086 2533-2929 |
| DOI: | 10.15866/irecap.v8i2.13421⟩ |
| Popis: | In this paper, efficient high performance computation of electromagnetic field problems using a Beowulf cluster and MatLab® is presented. A cluster with one master node, eight identical computing nodes, and a Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch is firstly built. An open source Rocks toolkit solution is used to simplify the process of deploying high-performance parallel computing clusters. Then, three computational electromagnetic applications are developed and implemented on the cluster using parallel MatLab. In the first application, is calculated the input impedance of a multilayer multiconductor circular microstrip antenna that is excited with coaxial probe and operating in a wide frequency band. Parallelization is then performed over the frequency vector permitting a speedup ratio of 23. In the second application, is presented a systematic method for generating and computing symbolic expressions of 3D tetrahedral FEM basis functions of higher orders up to 10. The final application is dedicated to the parallelization of the spatial moment method code for 2D array of bowtie antenna. The simulation results have shown that the array size can be increased considerably leading to a linear system with a size up to 100 times greater than the one under study. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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