Solving problems with over one billion unknowns by the MLFMA

Xiao Min Pan*, Wei Chao Pi, Ming Lin Yang, Zhen Peng, Xin Qing Sheng

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Abstract

Using OpenMP to further accelerate the pure MPI parallel MLFMA, an efficient and flexible parallel multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MPI-OpenMP-MLFMA) is proposed. Compared with previous MPI parallel schemes, the MPI-OpenMP-MLFMA improves the load-balance and scalability greatly. The computational capability of the proposed MPI-OpenMP-MLFMA is demonstrated by computing scattering from two extremely large targets: a sphere with a diameter of 1200 wavelengths, modeled by 1,063,706,700 unknowns, and an airplane model with the largest dimension of 1600 wavelengths, involving 288,151,344 unknowns.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6164224
Pages (from-to)2571-2574
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume60
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Electromagnetic scattering
  • MPI
  • OpenMP
  • parallelization
  • shared memory systems

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