EM Photonics Releases a Free GPU-Based FDTD Accelerator for Electromagnetic Simulations; Graphics Card Solution Enables Performance Comparable to PC Clusters.NEWARK, Del. -- EM Photonics, Inc., a leading provider of accelerated hardware technologies, today announced the release of FastFDTD(TM), a free 2D and 3D accelerated FDTD FDTD Finite Difference Time Domain FDTD From Dusk 'Til Dawn solver based on GPU GPU: see secret police. (Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering. (graphics card) technology. FastFDTD(TM) is the latest in a line of FDTD acceleration products offered by EM Photonics and their OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners, including EMPLab Accelerator(TM), EMPremier Workstation(TM), OptiFDTD MAX(TM), and the Celerity ce·ler·i·ty n. Swiftness of action or motion; speed. See Synonyms at haste. [French célérité, from Old French, from Latin celerit (TM) platform. The FastFDTD(TM) toolkit contains all files and documentation necessary to accelerate your FDTD computations using a simple input file format. No proprietary hardware is required to utilize the FastFDTD(TM) toolkit. Rather, individuals are free to use any supported graphics card of their choosing. The 2D and 3D solvers include a variety of sources and materials, and more are being added. When asked why EM Photonics was providing this toolkit for free, Eric Kelmelis, Vice President, said "We decided to release our GPU-based FDTD accelerator free of charge to demonstrate the power of application acceleration with alternative computational platforms. This solver shows a single graphics card running 20-30 times faster than an optimized software implementation. Our focus will remain on pushing the boundaries of this technology and accelerating other applications with commodity hardware devices such as graphics cards and FPGAs." The EM Photonics booth (#433) will feature live demonstrations of FastFDTD(TM) at SPIE's Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. , August 15-17. For more information, including specific feature sets, compatible graphics cards, and detailed license information, please visit the FastFDTD(TM) webpage at http://www.emphotonics.com/fastfdtd.html or email info@emphotonics.com. About EM Photonics EM Photonics, Inc. is a recognized leader in accelerating computationally intense algorithms with commodity hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. . Using off-the-shelf graphics processing units (GPUs) and custom-designed FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. coprocessing boards, EM Photonics' tools are revolutionizing the field of scientific computing. Building off initial success in accelerated electromagnetic wave See spectrum. Electromagnetic wave A disturbance, produced by the acceleration or oscillation of an electric charge, which has the characteristic time and spatial relations associated with progressive wave motion. simulations with the FDTD method, EM Photonics has more recently applied their technologies to other fields, including linear algebra and image processing. Founded in 2001, EM Photonics is a privately held organization headquartered in Newark, Delaware. For additional information, visit www.EMPhotonics.com. |
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