PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A FD-TD PARALLEL CODE FOR MICROWAVE OVENS DESIGN
Giovanni Erbacci, Gianni De Fabritiis, Gaetano Bellanca, P. Bassi, RUGGERO ROCCARI · 2000
A parallel Finite Difference-Time Domain (FD-TD) electromagnetic simulator for the design of domestic microwave ovens has been implemented to run both on a CRAY-T3E massively parallel computer and a PC cluster. In this paper, the main features of the code are described and the adopted parallelisation scheme is briefly illustrated. Then, the performances of the simulator are tested on a real case. The high efficiency obtained on the PC cluster clearly demonstrates the possibility to "bring" HPCN at low cost directly into the R&D department of industrial end-users, leaving the use of massively parallel systems available at big computer centres only for the simulation of huge dimension problems corresponding to special cases which require very fine mesh.