PARALLEL COMPUTATIONS OF ANTENNA ANALYSIS ON AN EXTENDED TRANSPUTER SYSTEM

Authors
Citation
Ekn. Yung et Cw. Yung, PARALLEL COMPUTATIONS OF ANTENNA ANALYSIS ON AN EXTENDED TRANSPUTER SYSTEM, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 30(5), 1994, pp. 3610-3613
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Physics, Applied
ISSN journal
00189464
Volume
30
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Part
2
Pages
3610 - 3613
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9464(1994)30:5<3610:PCOAAO>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
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.