Comparison study of performance of parallel steady state solver on different computer architectures

Authors:
Nick Soveiko;Michel S. Nakhla;Ramachandra Achar
Affiliations:
Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada;Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada;Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

A parallel solver for steady state analysis of nonlinear circuits is presented. The solver uses the Message Passing Interface specification for communications and is suitable for steady state simulation of very large nonlinear circuits. Performance of the solver is investigated on symmetric multiprocessing, non-uniform memory access, and distributed memory computer systems. Impact of memory subsystem constraints on the solver efficiency is evaluated.