The Case for Higher Computational Density in the Memory-Bound FDTD Method within Multicore Environments

Table 1

Comparison of the theoretical computational costs for the various FDTD algorithms.

Algorithm	Floats	Reads	Writes	Floats/FDTD floats
FDTD	6	7	1	1
FV24	45	46	1	7.5
FV24-WB	28	29	1	4.7
S{2,2}	45	46	1	7.5
S44	17	18	1	2.8