A High-Performance Parallel FDTD Method Enhanced by Using SSE Instruction Set

Table 1

Parallel FDTD performance with the SEE acceleration.

	FDTD with SSE acceleration	FDTD without SSE acceleration
Workstation	2 × AMD Opteron 6128 2.0 GHz
Memory usage	37 MB	37 MB
Simulation time	145 sec	345 sec