Acceleration study for the FDTD method using SSE and AVX instructions

In this paper, we discuss the acceleration effect for the FDTD method using SSE and AVX instructions. We developed three types of code: code developed by C language, code accelerated by SSE instructions and code accelerated by AVX instructions. We present the results of a performance study of the FDTD algorithm on Intel i5 Sandy Bridge. The results show that we can improve the performance of FDTD algorithm using SSE and AVX instructions.

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