Simulation of micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) on Grid

Fadi Khalil (1) , Bernard Miegemolle (1) , Thierry Monteil (1) , Hervé Aubert (1) , Fabio Coccetti (1) , Robert Plana (1)

1 LAAS - Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes

The future Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) will involve high complex architectures. The design and the Electro-Magnetic simulation of those components require more and more computer mem- ory and computational time. Grid Computing allows to execute all possi- ble configurations of MEMS simulations. In this article, we consider the case of a phase shifter based on N Radio Frequency (RF) MEMS systems which creates 2N possible configurations. A free open source Transmis- sion Line Matrix (TLM) fullwave Electro-Magnetic solver, called YAT- PAC (Yet Another TLM Package), is used to simulate the MEMS. The extensions of YATPAC Simulation Package for an execution in grid con- text, and especially for the French experimental Grid Computing plat- form Grid'5000, are explained. The execution is done over several sites. A study of performance for deployment of code and data, execution time and recovery of results is commented to show the potential of TLM over a grid.

Domaines: Autre [cs.OH]

Fadi Khalil, Bernard Miegemolle, Thierry Monteil, Hervé Aubert, Fabio Coccetti, et al.. Simulation of micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) on Grid. VECPAR'08 : 8th International Meeting High Performance Computing for Computational Science, Jun 2008, Toulouse, France. ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-92859-1⟩. ⟨hal-00691974⟩