The Solution of Electromagnetic Field Problems Using a Sliding Window Gauss-Seidel Algorithm on a Multicore Processor

摘要

Chip-based multicore processors (CMPs) raise the possibility of significant improvement in the performance of electromagnetic simulation tools. They can impact the mesh generation, solution, and result evaluation phases. This paper investigates the parallelization and scalability of Gauss–Seidel on CMPs by using a new cache blocking technique to overcome the small cache problem while using a thread synchronization technique for better cache sharing and to maximize thread cycle utilization.