TR-94-04-01.ps.Z

S. T. Nguyen, B. J. Zook and X. Zhang, 
``Distributed computation of
electromagnetic scattering problems using finite-difference time-domain
decompositions", 

in Proceedings of the Third IEEE International
Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, IEEE CS Press,
August, 1994.

Abstract 
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Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) is an important numerical method
for solving electromagnetic scattering problems. Solutions for these
problems are computationally intensive. In addition, large problems
require large amounts memory, making distributed memory desirable.
We present distributed FDTD methods and their implementations on
a distributed workstation network using PVM. 
We examine
the parallelism of the methods and evaluate computing performance
by studying load balancing, communication pattern variations, and
scalability of the programs on the distributed network systems.
This work should be relevant to anyone solving partial differential
equations using finite-difference techniques.