ABSTRACT
The FDTD technique, as well as other electromagnetic (EM) modeling techniques such as the method of moments, is numerically intensive, requiring significant computational resources for complex models. In addition to EM modeling techniques two broad areas stand out as numerically intensive — digital signal processing and scientific visualization. Our work on FDTD has been on computers optimized for scientific visualization applications, and we have found that this is an excellent hardware environment for FDTD. It is our general observation that computers optimized for visualization work well with FDTD and there is no reason to forgo visualization when working with FDTD on such a platform as the numerical resources needed to support one generally goes hand in hand with the resources to support the other. In fact, visualization should be considered whenever numerically intensive computer modeling is employed in whatever application.
