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README.md

opencl-fdtd

opencl-fdtd is a python package for running 3D time-domain electromagnetic simulations on parallel compute hardware (mainly GPUs).

Performance highly depends on what hardware you have available:

  • A 395x345x73 cell simulation (~10 million points, 8-cell absorbing boundaries) runs at around 42 iterations/sec. on my Nvidia GTX 580.
  • On my laptop (Nvidia 940M) the same simulation achieves ~8 iterations/sec.
  • An L3 photonic crystal cavity ringdown simulation (1550nm source, 40nm discretization, 8000 steps) takes about 5 minutes on my laptop.

Capabilities are currently pretty minimal:

  • Absorbing boundaries (CPML)
  • Conducting boundaries (PMC)
  • Anisotropic media (eps_xx, eps_yy, eps_zz)
  • Direct access to fields (eg., you can trivially add a soft or hard current source with just sim.E[1] += sin(f0 * t), or save any portion of a field to a file)

Installation

Requirements:

  • python 3 (written and tested with 3.5)
  • numpy
  • pyopencl
  • h5py (for file output)
  • gridlock
  • masque

To get these files, just clone this repository:

git clone https://mpxd.net/gogs/jan/opencl-fdtd.git

You can install the requirements and their dependencies easily with

pip intall -r requirements.txt

Running

The root directory contains fdtd.py, which sets up and runs a sample simulation (cavity ringdown).

python3 fdtd.py