SBIR/STTR Research Award
Hardware Acceleration of Method of Moments (MoM) for Large-Scale EM Scattering Computations
Award amount
$79,897Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VIRTUAL EM INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2009-04-29
- Contract end date
- 2009-10-29
- UEI
- XVVMZSCBJJS6
- Solicitation number
- 2009.1
- Topic code
- N091-023
Research abstract
Virtual EM is proposing to build a cluster utilizing a commercially available special purpose processor. The proposed system will offer a performance-to-price ratio, which is “five times” better than the leading commercial clusters. Using this cluster and Virtual EM’s 3D Method of Moments simulator, one will be able to accurately model small boats (including the surrounding patch of sea) within a reasonable simulation time and budget. The (performance-to-price) ratio will increase as the number of nodes in the cluster grows due to linear speed-up and the unit price dropping. Phase I will establish benchmarks using a one-node system, and a 10-node prototype cluster will be built in Phase II for modeling realistic targets.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Reconfigurable Conformal Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) utilizing Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs)
- RF Channel Sounder for Automatic Acquisition of the Wireless Environment.
- A Massively Parallel Scalable Processor for Order of Magnitude Increase in Acceleration of Photonic Simulations
- Remote Monitoring of Cardiopulmonary and Neurological Signals
- Low-Cost Radar Antenna with Electronic Elevation Scan
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- ACCESS - ACCelerator for Electromagnetic Scattering Simulations
- ACCESS - ACCelerator for Electromagnetic Scattering Simulations
- Assessing Electromagnetic Scattering Properties of Small Boats in Littoral Environments Using Hardware Accelerated Computing
Research funding history
31 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $7,801,861. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce