MPI support for SimulationPlanar

[yigithanmehmetkose]

First, I wanna thank the developers.

I conduct a multi-layer planar simulation which is computationally expensive, so I wanna run this in a cluster with MPI. Yet, the MPI example uses SimulationGrating class with IntegrateKxKyMPI function. My simulation uses SimulationPlanar class, and there is no IntegrateKParallelMPI function so what should I do?

• Would using SimulationGrating without adding any grating pattern work?
• Would this slow down the simulation compared to SimulationPlanar?
• What should I set SetLattice and SetNumOfG fields since I do not add any grating?

Thanks in advance, Yigithan Mehmet Kose

[kfrancischen]

It is usually very cheap to run Planar on single machines. May I understand the scale of your problem?

[yigithanmehmetkose]

It is usually very cheap to run Planar on single machines. May I understand the scale of your problem?

I conduct a near-field TPV simulation including 9 layers. Since it is a TPV simulation, I need to evaluate 1000 planar simulations with varying probe Z-coordinates to obtain dept-dependent Poynting vector. This is what makes it expensive