大规模并行时域有限差分法电磁计算研究

Study on Large-Scale Parallel Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method for Electromagnetic Computation

基于我国超级计算机平台,开展了大规模并行时域有限差分法(Finite-Difference Time-Domain FDTD)的性能和应用研究。在我国首台百万亿次"魔方"超级计算机、具有国产CPU的"神威蓝光"超级计算机和当前排名世界第一的"天河二号"超级计算机上就并行FDTD方法的并行性能进行了测试,并分别突破了10000 CPU核,100000 CPU核和300000 CPU核的并行规模。在不同测试规模下,该算法的并行效率均达到了50%以上,表明了本文并行算法具有良好的可扩展性。通过仿真分析多个微带天线阵的辐射特性和某大型飞机的散射特性,表明本文方法可以在不同架构的超级计算机上对复杂电磁问题进行精确高效电磁仿真。

The study of performance and applications of the large-scale parallel Finite-Difference Time-Domain（FDTD） method is carried out on the China-made supercomputer platforms. The parallel efficiency is tested on Magic Cube supercomputer that ranked the 10 th fastest supercomputer in the world in Nov. 2008, Sunway Blue Light MPP supercomputer that is the first large scale parallel supercomputer with China-own-made CPUs, and Tianhe-2 supercomputer that ranked the 1st in the world currently, and the algorithm is implemented on the three supercomputers using maximum number of CPU cores of 10000, 100000 and 300000, respectively. The parallel efficiency reaches up to 50%, which indicates a good scalability of the method in this paper. Multiple microstrip antenna arrays and a large airplane are computed to demonstrate that the parallel FDTD can be applied for accurate and efficient simulation of complicated electromagnetic problems on supercomputer with different architectures.