FEKO Suite 5.1 release

FEKO Suite 5.1 is released with the following major highlights include parallel MLFMM, waveguide port excitation, CAD import filters. (December 2005)

CADFEKO

Helix primitive with CADFEKO dialog

External CAD file import into CADFEKO (IGES, SAT, STEP, CATIA, ProEngineer, Unigraphics etc.). These CAD import modules are by default switched off in the licence, if desired they must be purchased separately.
Import meshes: Import (NASTRAN, PATRAN, FEMAP, STL, Concept, ANSYS CDB and AutoCAD DXF) directly into CADFEKO.
Cylindrical-, Conical- helices and Spirals can be created using new primitives.

Parallel MLFMM: The MLFMM is available for parallel processing for shared and distributed memory environments.
Spherical mode expansion sources (AS card) can now also be used with PO (UTD has been available).
Waveguide port excitation: A new excitation option (AW card) has been added so that a certain mode (e.g. TE10) can be specified as excitation for rectangular- or circular- waveguides or also circular coaxial cables. S–parameter computations are then also supported. Presently this waveguide feed option is available only in connection with MoM or MLFMM for metallic bodies (no dielectric bodies, also no PO or UTD).

SGI Altix: FEKO has been ported to the SGI Altix architecture with special optimisations to use the SGI MPT library in connection with the NumaFlex interconnect technology from SGI.
HP-UX: SSH is now also supported under HP-UX for remotely launching parallel jobs in a cluster. Upgrade of HP MPI so that also Infiniband can be used efficiently as interconnect on IA64. Tuning of FEKO and adjustments of certain parameters to give significantly better performance for the parallel solution of a system of linear equations (both in-core and out-of-core).