High performance computing of thermal control simulation for multilayer full-chip design

Abstract

The demand on high performance computing is increasing day by day. Large scale of problems needs to be solved computationally fast and accurately without consuming the time. In chip industry, visualizing the thermal simulation involves a large scale of computational complexity and high cost of execution time. Thus, this paper proposes an approach to high performance thermal simulation of multilayer full-chip structure using elliptic Partial Differential Equation (PDE). The prototype of the parallel algorithm is develop using C language and Parallel Virtual Machine and executed on Linux platform. The numerical result and performance analysis will be investigated in terms of execution time, communication cost, speedup, efficiency, effectiveness and temporal performance.