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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2015.15.09.021

Implementation of Massive FDTD Simulation Computing Model Based on MPI Cluster for Semi-conductor Process  

Lee, Seung-Il (충남대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Kim, Yeon-Il (충남대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Lee, Sang-Gil (충남대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Lee, Cheol-Hoon (충남대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.15, no.9, 2015 , pp. 21-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the semi-conductor process, a simulation process is performed to detect defects by analyzing the behavior of the impurity through the physical quantity calculation of the inner element. In order to perform the simulation, Finite-Difference Time-Domain(FDTD) algorithm is used. The improvement of semiconductor which is composed of nanoscale elements, the size of simulation is getting bigger. Problems that a processor such as CPU or GPU cannot perform the simulation due to the massive size of matrix or a computer consist of multiple processors cannot handle a massive FDTD may come up. For those problems, studies are performed with parallel/distributed computing. However, in the past, only single type of processor was used. In GPU's case, it performs fast, but at the same time, it has limited memory. On the other hand, in CPU, it performs slower than that of GPU. To solve the problem, we implemented a computing model that can handle any FDTD simulation regardless of size on the cluster which consist of heterogeneous processors. We tested the simulation on processors using MPI libraries which is based on 'point to point' communication and verified that it operates correctly regardless of the number of node and type. Also, we analyzed the performance by measuring the total execution time and specific time for the simulation on each test.
Keywords
Parallel Computing; Hybrid Computing; MPI; CUDA;
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