NUSIT HPC

Meep

Introduction

Meep implements the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method for computational electromagnetism.  The current version installed in SVU is 1.0.3.  More details on the Meep software can be found at the developer’s website.

Meep is currently only available on atlas4 cluster.  To run a 4-cpu parallel Meep job on a sample input file, ring.ctl, type the following command:

bsub -a mvapich -q atlas4_parallel -n 4 -o output.txt mpirun.lsf /app1/ia32-64/bin/meep-mpi ring.ctl

The program will generate Meep output files, and all screen output will be stored in output.txt.  Users can run up to 16-cpus on the atlas4_parallel queue.

To run a serial job, type:

bsub -q linux64 -m atlas4cluster -o output.txt /app1/ia32-64/bin/meep-serial ring.ctl