PARALLEL COMPUTATIONS OF ANTENNA ANALYSIS ON AN EXTENDED TRANSPUTER SYSTEM

An antenna analysis algorithm based on the method of moments is decomp osed for execution in a custom-designed computer network, namely, the extended transputer processor farm system. It comprises Inmos T801 tra nsputers and Intel 80486 single-processor boards. Special techniques h ave been developed for solving the antenna problem in paralleL Softwar e was written to handle low-level tasks for parallel processing. Compa red with the conventional process farm system, the modified architectu re is faster yet much cheaper to implement. The system is applicable t o similar parallel algorithms with a high computation-to-communication ratio. Satisfactory computational speedup is observed.