Re: [Meep-discuss] eps-averaging taking so long!

2009-08-27 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
asadollahbaik a. (aa306) wrote: > Dear Meep Users, > > I am about to start running the most important simulation of my PhD: > There is this very complicated 3D structure consisting of 40 cosine-shape > structures on a block of dielectric (it will be expanded to bigger number). > The eps-averaging

Re: [Meep-discuss] MPI efficiency

2009-01-12 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Nizamov Shawkat wrote: > So the first question is - what mpi efficiency do you observe on your > systems? I have observed excellent acceleration. Dual-core systems have been near-linear, and running on 8 machines with a GigE interconnect I got about 6x acceleration. The important thing is to mak

Re: [Meep-discuss] FW: BLAS installation problem

2008-07-17 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 badar ahmed wrote: | setenv CPPFLAGS "-I/usr/local/include" When I try to enter these now, it says 'bash: setenv: command not found' Can anyone please help? Thanks, Badar. Not all shells are the same. "setenv" is a csh shell command. The equivalent

Re: [Meep-discuss] About cyclotron frequency

2008-04-30 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harvey wrote: | But I don't know MEEP contains anything about the mass and charge. MEEP does not simulate motion. In MEEP, all objects are fixed, and only the electromagnetic field can change with time. Therefore, there is no such thing as mass. Yo

Re: [Meep-discuss] wrong due to subpixel averaging?

2008-03-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 adrian wrote: | Hi, Meep users: | I have one question on subpixel averaging. |I defined a disk with diameter equal to 16nm and height equal to 24nm and epsilon equal to 11, however, |meep produced a disk which epsilon is 7.2 and its

Re: [Meep-discuss] Why is the flux increasing with the run-time?

2008-02-26 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mani Chandra wrote: | Hey! | I have a single continuous point source in a 2D waveguide with metallic boundaries and when I check the flux at some plane it seems to increase with the upper limit of f.time() where f is my fields variable. | How is this

Re: [Meep-discuss] source feeding -short circuit-

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Federica Fiorese wrote: > Hi! > to understand how to feed my patch antenna I'm trying > to realize a short circuit, so I feed the antenna and > I look what it radiates: being a short circuit I > expect to find no field. I implement this situation as >

Re: [Meep-discuss] need advise on buying PC for runing meep

2007-12-10 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 adrian wrote: > Hi, everyone: >We are considering for buying one PC to run MEEP . >The number of points in my usual case is around 125e+6, corresponding > to 5.722GB. > Additionally, we use dispersive material. > I use long wavelengt

Re: [Meep-discuss] structure problem with PCF

2007-11-28 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the reason may be the shape of the cladding holes which are not > cylindrical but hexagonal. But I don't know how to define a hexagonal > structure. Could you please help me? If you can provide some codes, that > will

Re: [Meep-discuss] specifying complex index or refraction

2007-11-25 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
PattiMichelle wrote: > Is there a preferred way to specify the complex index of refraction of a > lossy conductor (for instance, carbon)? The index of refraction of a material is only well-defined at a single frequency. Meep works at all frequencies; therefore, the index of refraction must be imp

Re: [Meep-discuss] Spatially varying sigma

2007-10-14 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 matt wrote: > > I think what you want is possible with the ctl interface. You are absolutely right. The key, for posterity's sake, is to first generate a polarizability with the desired omega, gamma, and delta-epsilon, and an arbitrary sigma. Once t

Re: [Meep-discuss] Spatially varying sigma

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > If sigma is not meant to be passed as a function, then sigma and > delta-epsilon are entirely redundant. I have been reading through the Meep code in an attempt to understand the situation. I now believ

Re: [Meep-discuss] Spatially varying sigma

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 matt wrote: > You proably want to evaluate what you want sigma to be higher up in > make-mat-from-eps-and-sigma. Instead of calling > make-polarizability-from-conductivity and passing it a function, you > only pass a single sigma value. Unfortunately

Re: [Meep-discuss] Spatially varying sigma

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 matt wrote: > The answer you're looking for is in this thread: > http://www.mail-archive.com/meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu/msg00891.html > > also, for reference, check these threads: > http://www.mail-archive.com/meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu/msg006

[Meep-discuss] Spatially varying sigma

2007-10-11 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Meepers, I am trying to define a polarizability with spatially varying sigma. My code reads, in part: (make polarizability (omega omega_in) (gamma omega_in) (delta-epsilon (/ 1 omega_in))

Re: [Meep-discuss] Parallel HDF5 being detected as single-threaded

2007-10-03 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > I noticed the same bug as Lingling Tang, regarding deadlock in output-hfield. I just applied the patch suggested in that thread. The patch did not apply cleanly, presumably due to me misunderstanding correct usage

[Meep-discuss] Parallel HDF5 being detected as single-threaded

2007-10-03 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I noticed the same bug as Lingling Tang, regarding deadlock in output-hfield. However, I was using a parallel HDF5, so this was mysterious. On closer inspection, I realized that, during config, Meep was incorrectly determining that my installation of

[Meep-discuss] Single-frequency response at all points

2007-04-24 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Meepers, I am trying to recover the amplitude and phase of each component of the magnetic field at a single, fixed temporal frequency. My materials are all linear. Currently, I have a point source at the desired frequency with slow turnon. I wa