Strategies for Improving the Use of the Memory Hierarchy in an Implementation of the Modified Equivalent Current Approximation (MECA) Method
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Strategies for Improving the Use of the Memory Hierarchy in an Implementation of the Modified Equivalent Current Approximation (MECA) MethodAbstract
In this paper, we investigate different techniques for improving the cache memory use when running a parallel implementation of the modified equivalent current approximation (MECA) method. The MECA method allows the analysis of dielectric and lossy geometries, and reduces to the well-studied physical optics (PO) formulation in case of PEC scatterers. We discuss several memory-hierarchy-based optimization techniques and present how to implement them in C. We show through simulations that these optimization strategies are effective for reducing the total execution time when calculating the scattered fields with a parallel implementation of the MECA method.
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