Review of parallel and distributed architectures for micromagnetic codes

• Omar Khan ^[1] ; Fiaz Khan ^[2] ; Carlo Ragusa ^[1] ; Bartolomeo Montrucchio ^[1]
  1. [1] Polytechnic University of Turin

     Polytechnic University of Turin

     Torino, Italia

     
  2. [2] COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

     COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

     Pakistán

     
• Localización: Compel: International journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, ISSN 0332-1649, Vol. 32, Nº 6, 2013, págs. 1891-1900
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Purpose – Rapid advancements in computer technologies over the past decade have recorded significant growth in the area of computational micromagnetics. As a result, current micromagnetic codes exploit the scalability offered by parallel and distributed computer architectures to deliver maximum performance. The purpose of this paper is to present a review, which explores various aspects of this relationship.

    Design/methodology/approach – The authors arrange the theme for this paper around the micromagnetic code development process. The review involves a discussion of the micromagnetic model, some new parallel architectures, and computational aspects based on different numerical methods.

    Findings – As current micromagnetic code is not readily portable to different architectures, most of the development effort goes towards this area, with a focus on writing/rewriting code for streaming hardware (particularly graphic cards).

    Originality/value – The paper identifies key challenges and avenues for further research on computational aspects of micromagnetic modelling and suggests recommendations based on the review.