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 part

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 make

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.

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

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 wavelength

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 be

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

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:

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,

[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))

[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

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