Porting a commercial finite difference time domain electromagnetic code to a parallel architecture machine

Abstract

This paper describes the PEPSE (Parallel Electromagnetic Problem Solving Environment) project, which is part &the ESPRIT funded Europort 2 project. PEPSE involved the porting of a Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Electromagetic (EM) code to a host of parallel architecture machines. This was pertbnned using the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) message passing libraries. The paper describes the background to PEPSE, how the FDTD code was parallelised, the experience obtained through the porting activity, the resulting scalability and the industrial impact of the results.