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A highly scalable parallel boundary element method for capacitance extraction

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Traditional parallel boundary element methods suffer from low parallel efficiency and poor scalability due to the long system solving time bottleneck. In this paper, we demonstrate how to avoid such a bottleneck by using an instantiable basis function approach. In our demonstrated examples, we achieve 90% parallel efficiency and scalability both in shared memory and distributed memory parallel systems.

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DAC '11: Proceedings of the 48th Design Automation Conference
June 2011
1055 pages
ISBN:9781450306362
DOI:10.1145/2024724
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  1. boundary element method
  2. capacitance extraction
  3. field solver
  4. parallel computing

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