New Perspectives for Computational Electromagnetics with Grid Computing

The demand for computing power in computational electromagnetics (CEM) is continuously increasing. Meanwhile, cooperative engineering is becoming more and more present in daily research and development workflows. Projects are often developed by teams which interact remotely, and need tighter and tighter connectivity. Grid Computing seems a promising way to satisfy both the need of high-performance computing platforms, and the requirements for effective cooperative computing. This is proved on two real applications, the former on antenna array design, the latter on FDTD analysis of human-antenna interaction.