Modelling nanoplasmonic device based on an off-shelf hybrid desktop supercomputing platform

Yang, Shufan; Li, Renfa; Hillenbrand, Dominic

Abstract

Designing nanoplasmonic devices presents a number of unique challenges. The time domain modelling and simulation of electromagnetic (EM) wave interaction with nanoplasmonic devices, at high spatial and time resolution, requires high computational power. Recent advances in commodity hardware technologies, particularly multi-core CPU, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and graphic processing units (GPUs) have allowed the creation of desktop-style devices to be powerful and capable high performance computers systems. In this paper, we propose an OpenCL framework with the support of modelling and simulation of nanoplamonic devices and demonstrate the key programming skills required to design customised high-speed hardware resources.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO)
• Start Date: Aug 5, 2013
• End Date: Aug 8, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Jan 27, 2014
• Publication Date: 2013
• Deposit Date: Mar 12, 2021
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Series ISSN: 1944-9399
• Book Title: 2013 13th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2013)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/nano.2013.6720891
• Keywords: Field programmable gate arrays, Computational modeling, Graphics processing units, Mathematical model, Optical waveguides, Computers
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2752557