Fast parallel simulation of fiber optical communication systems accelerated by a graphics processing unit
TU Dortmund, High Frequency Institute, Friedrich-Wohler-Weg 4, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010
@inproceedings{pachnicke2010fast,
title={Fast parallel simulation of fiber optical communication systems accelerated by a graphics processing unit},
author={Pachnicke, S. and Chachaj, A. and Helf, M. and Krummrich, PM},
booktitle={Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on},
pages={1–4},
year={2010},
organization={IEEE}
}
A parallel implementation of the split-step Fourier method utilizing the general purpose parallel computing architecture for graphics processing units CUDA is presented. Results of the GPU-implementation are compared to a conventional CPU-based approach regarding computation time and accuracy. We developed a novel implementation with a significantly higher accuracy than the CUDA intrinsic FFT in single precision mode yielding a high speed-up factor of up to 144 compared to a CPU implementation.
August 15, 2011 by hgpu
