Benefits and Challenges of GPU Accelerated Electromagnetic Solvers from a Commercial Point of View
Ulrich Jakobus · The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal (ACES) · 2018
This paper discusses the benefits but also challenges of GPU accelerated electromagnetic solvers from a commercial point of view, namely using FEKO as example. Specifically, the effects of some of the complex interdependencies between different components are presented. It is shown that despite the advances made in the field of GPGPU computing, and impressive speedups for parts of a program or simplified problems, there are a number of factors to consider before these techniques can be applied to a commercial product that is expected to be robust and, most importantly, to always give trustworthy results for a wide variety of problems.