Application Article
A High-Performance Parallel FDTD Method Enhanced by Using SSE Instruction Set
Table 2
Performance comparison of parallel FDTD method on 4-CPU workstation and high-performance cluster.
| | Platform | CPU type | Network | Simulation time |
| | Workstation (4 CPUs, 64 GB RAM) | AMP Opteron 6168 1.9 GHz($795 each) | No network | 319 min. (with hardware acceleration and NUMA) | | 2 CPUs (24 GB RAM) | Intel Xeon X5570 2.93 GHz($1465 each) | No network | 1720 min. (with hardware acceleration, no NUMA) | | 128 CPUs (1536 GB RAM) | Intel Xeon X5570 2.93 GHz($1465 each) | Infiniband | 29 min.37 sec. (with hardware acceleration no NUMA) |
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