Mapping the FDTD Application to Many-Core Chip Architectures

—This paper reports a study of mapping the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) application to the IBM Cyclops64 (C64) many-core chip architecture [1]. C64 is chosen for this study as it represents the current trend in computer architecture to develop a class of many-core architectures with distinct features e.g. software manageable on-chip memory hierarchy (vs. a hardware-managed data cache), high on-chip bandwidth, fine grain multithreading and synchronization, among others. Major results of our study include:

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICPP
• Authors: Daniel Orozco, Guang R. Gao
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Finite Difference Time Domain, ICPP 2009, Manageable On-chip Memory, Many-core Chip Architecture