IMST invented a proprietary software acceleration technique for FDTD simulation on modern CPU‘s.

Numerical techniques:

  • Specific C- & assembler-code created for each simulation to fit CPU architecture and simulation model
  • Individual code adaptation for latest CPU’s (AVX, AVX2, AVX 512, …)
  • Efficient caching & compression of FDTD coefficients
  • Speed not limited by RAM access time due to efficient last level cache usage (multiple time step principle)
  • The XPU technique calculates the updates for the E- and H-fields combining multiple time steps of the fields calculated in the cache memory of every core of the CPU
  • IMST invented software acceleration technique for FDTD simulation
    on modern CPU‘s

 

Key Advantages:

  • Ability to access the complete RAM of PC (> 2 TB today)
  • High simulation speed for all simulation model sizes
  • Reduced memory usage compared to standard FDTD
  • Multiple PC’s using the XPU technique can be efficiently clustered using a similar multi time step principle applied between different PC’s
  • Support of cloud computing on Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure cluster

XPU Technology vs GPU acceleration hardware resources usage

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XPU technology surpasses the simulation speed and simulation size of GPU cards for FDTD simulations

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