Using Grid Computing in Parallel Electronic Circuit Simulation

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Using Grid Computing in Parallel Electronic
Circuit Simulation

• Marko Dimitrijevic

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Introduction

• Electronic circuit simulation
• Parallelization of simulation process
• The basic of grid computing
• Circuit simulation in grid environment
• Conclusion

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Circuit simulation the most intensive
calculations

• Significant processing power
• Large operating memory
• Large storage capacity
• Simulation runtimes are very long

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Parallelization a way to reduce calculation time

• OpenMP
• MPI

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Parallel simulator implementation

• pAlecsis Parallel Analog and Logic Electronic
  Circuits Simulation System
• Mixed-signal and mixed-domain simulator
• Master-slave algoritam
• MPI implementation

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Parallel simulator implementation

• pAlecsis Parallel Analog and Logic Electronic
  Circuits Simulation System

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Parallel simulator implementation

• pAlecsis Parallel Analog and Logic Electronic
  Circuits Simulation System

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Scientific challenging intensive calculations
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Grid
Resource sharing and coordinated problem solving
in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual
organizations.
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Anatomy of computer grid
User interterface
Replica Catalogue
Resource Broker
Input sandbox
DataSets info
Information Service
Output sandbox
Job Submit Event
SE CE info
Auth. Auth.
Input sandbox Broker Info
Job Status
Output sandbox
Job Status
Computing Element
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Circuit simulation in grid infrastructure
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Conclusion
Application is in the test phase, deployment
phase will start next year.