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RESEARCH PRODUCT

COMPARISON OF CPML IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR THE GPU-ACCELERATED FDTD SOLVER

Tomasz P. StefanskiNiels KusterJukka I. ToivanenNicolas Chavannes

subject

CUDAPerfectly matched layerScale (ratio)Computer scienceFinite-difference time-domain methodParallel computingGraphicsSolverCondensed Matter PhysicsImplementationElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsComputational science

description

Three distinctively difierent implementations of convolu- tional perfectly matched layer for the FDTD method on CUDA enabled graphics processing units are presented. All implementations store ad- ditional variables only inside the convolutional perfectly matched lay- ers, and the computational speeds scale according to the thickness of these layers. The merits of the difierent approaches are discussed, and a comparison of computational performance is made using complex real-life benchmarks.

https://doi.org/10.2528/pierm11061002