Hi Steven and other Meep users, We are new to Meep. Right now the most concern for us is the simulation time and memory usage. It seams one single server cannot handle very large simulation. For example: the simulation of a 600 x 20 x 900 structure takes ~8-10 hours to finish on a 4GB RAM server. (I don't know if that's a typical number for other users, but we think it's large.) But actually I need to simulate a structure 5 times larger than that. In that case, the simulation just cut down by itself. I guess that's because we don't have enough memory.
So my question is: Is there anyway to reduce the simulation time or memory usage? Or we can only upgrade our machine or use computer cluster? Other than that, can I break the structure into several pieces, and simulate it separately? In that case, how to specify the sources? Actually, that's another problem that bothers me a lot: Can I specify the source using E-field or H-field? Or can I use one simulation's output as another simulation's input? Thank you very much! Best, Shang _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
