The Itanium Solutions Blog

I wanted to take this chance to introduce our newly completed Case Study: “Itanium-Based Supercomputer Solves Largest Electromagnetic Simulations.”

Behind any success story, there is a passion story. When we started this challenge it was, overall, a matter of perseverance. Eventually we knew that things were coming to term: we had a good algorithm, which scales properly and, of course, the Itanium-based computer to make it happen. And it did happen: world record, international awards, finding ourselves saying “Thank you” at the Innovation Awards gala…Unforgettable! We are of course proud to present this account of our efforts.

J. Carlos Mourino, CESGA

Everyone in the research team here at CESGA that made this development possible is very excited about our solution being named a finalist in the 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards. The solution is the result of the collaborative work realized in Computational Electromagnetism by the research team from the Universities of Vigo and Extremadura (in Spain), working shoulder to shoulder with us at the Supercomputing Center of Galicia, CESGA, to develop low-complexity, high-scalability electromagnetic codes to take advantage of the availability of massively parallel supercomputers as Finis Terrae.

The developed simulation algorithms are great for the study of electromagnetic interactions and wave phenomena with calculations involving hundreds of millions unknowns. But they can be applied to whatever problem where numerical electromagnetic or acoustic simulation is required and therefore, to a wide range of real-life applications such as wireless propagation, oil exploration, medical imaging, radars, antennas, the aerospace industry, and other related fields.

Here at CESGA, in Spain, we are delighted with this nomination. We very much hope that this nomination will help get the message across to all industrial agents about the availability of this new and very useful code. Good luck to all the finalists. See you in San Francisco!