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Volume 9, Issue 2
Parallel Data Partitioning Strategy in Solving Large Scale Electromagnetic Scattering Problems

Y. Hu, W. Tong, X. Wang & X. Zhi

Int. J. Numer. Anal. Mod., 9 (2012), pp. 257-269.

Published online: 2012-09

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The multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) has shown great efficiency in solving large scale electromagnetic scattering problems. However, when unknowns become up to tens of millions, it is not trivial to keep high performance because of the complicated structure and calculation of MLFMA. In order to get rid of the bottleneck caused by load balancing, a parallel data partitioning strategy is proposed based on the hierarchical structure of an oct-tree of MLFMA. We present our data partitioning strategy in the light of different layers' properties including the processing of three kinds of layers in the tree and a fine-grained decomposition. We also put forward a solution of a coexisting data correlating problem, using a transition layer. Meanwhile, with the purpose of minimizing communication time in distributed memory system, a redundant technique is applied in the distributed layer. Parallel efficiency analysis demonstrates that the computational cost in parallelization of MLFMA can be asymptotically cut, and a high parallel efficiency can be obtained in our implementation.

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35R35, 49J40, 60G40

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The multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) has shown great efficiency in solving large scale electromagnetic scattering problems. However, when unknowns become up to tens of millions, it is not trivial to keep high performance because of the complicated structure and calculation of MLFMA. In order to get rid of the bottleneck caused by load balancing, a parallel data partitioning strategy is proposed based on the hierarchical structure of an oct-tree of MLFMA. We present our data partitioning strategy in the light of different layers' properties including the processing of three kinds of layers in the tree and a fine-grained decomposition. We also put forward a solution of a coexisting data correlating problem, using a transition layer. Meanwhile, with the purpose of minimizing communication time in distributed memory system, a redundant technique is applied in the distributed layer. Parallel efficiency analysis demonstrates that the computational cost in parallelization of MLFMA can be asymptotically cut, and a high parallel efficiency can be obtained in our implementation.

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The multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) has shown great efficiency in solving large scale electromagnetic scattering problems. However, when unknowns become up to tens of millions, it is not trivial to keep high performance because of the complicated structure and calculation of MLFMA. In order to get rid of the bottleneck caused by load balancing, a parallel data partitioning strategy is proposed based on the hierarchical structure of an oct-tree of MLFMA. We present our data partitioning strategy in the light of different layers' properties including the processing of three kinds of layers in the tree and a fine-grained decomposition. We also put forward a solution of a coexisting data correlating problem, using a transition layer. Meanwhile, with the purpose of minimizing communication time in distributed memory system, a redundant technique is applied in the distributed layer. Parallel efficiency analysis demonstrates that the computational cost in parallelization of MLFMA can be asymptotically cut, and a high parallel efficiency can be obtained in our implementation.

Y. Hu, W. Tong, X. Wang & X. Zhi. (1970). Parallel Data Partitioning Strategy in Solving Large Scale Electromagnetic Scattering Problems. International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling. 9 (2). 257-269. doi:
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