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ACCESS - ACCelerator for Electromagnetic Scattering Simulations

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68335-10-C-0394
Agency Tracking Number: N091-023-0850
Amount: $749,104.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N091-023
Solicitation Number: 2009.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-08-04
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2013-08-15
Small Business Information
5621 Arapahoe Ave, Suite A
Boulder, CO -
United States
DUNS: 806486692
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Peter Messmer
 Senior Scientist
 (303) 473-9286
 messmer@txcorp.com
Business Contact
 Laurence Nelson
Title: Controller
Phone: (720) 974-1856
Email: lnelson@txcorp.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Determining the scattering properties of small boats on a rough sea surface is a problem of high importance to the Navy. Due to the conducting nature of the surrounding water, the scattering signature of the boat cannot be determined just from a geometrical model in vacuum, but requires the simulation of its environment as well. The resulting simulations require large amounts of memory and computing time and innovation is required to accelerate these simulations. During the Phase I, we demonstrated that graphics processing units (GPUs) can be used to accelerate a key algorithm for electromagnetic scattering simulations, a parallel out-of-core dense solver, by at least an order of magnitude. Based on inferred scaling laws we expect this speedup to be maintained for systems beyond 1,000,000 unknowns. The Phase II project will be split into a base and an option period. The goal of the Phase II base period is to incorporate the GPU accelerated solver into the widely used electromagnetic modeling code WIPL-D. In addition, we will investigate GPU acceleration of the matrix-fill part. In the Phase II Option period we will then investigate the suitability of GPUs to accelerate a more approximate method, the fast multipole method.

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