Parallelization of the Moment Method in the Computation of Microstrip Structures

Abstract

In the last decade, the use of the parallel architectures in the solution of complex scientific and engineering problems has been proved as the most efficient way. However, effective use of these supercomputers requieres a good design of the algorithms, as regards the data distribution and the communication requirements. In this paper, we present the parallelization of a complex problem to predict the electromagnetic behaviour of the microwave circuits. The parallel algorithm was implemented in the IBM-SP2 using MPI library and overlap computations and communications, in order to minimize the overhead of the communications. The final results prove the improvement in the execution time.