Acknowledgments

We would like to express sincere thanks to our research partner—GiD team (Spain) and particularly to Dr. Ramon Ribo, for their help with developing the GUI of HOBBIES.

We would like to thank Drs. Oliver E. Allen, John S. Asvestas, and Saad N. Tabet from the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, for their continued support and interest of this topic. Grateful acknowledgement is also made to Mr. Gerard J. Genello, Dr. Michael C. Wicks, and Dr. Jeffrey T. Carlo of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York, and to Dr. Eric L. Mokole from the Naval Research Laboratory for their interest in developing parallel solvers for solution of challenging electromagnetic field problems. We also would like to thank Mr. Mark Povinelli of Lockheed Martin Corporation as well as Mr. Don McPherson and Dr. Harvey Schuman of Syracuse Research Corporation for their continued interest in this work.

Thanks are also due to Ms. Brenda Flowers, Ms. Maureen Marano, and Ms. Rebecca Noble for the expert typing of the manuscript.

We gratefully acknowledge Professors Carlos Hartmann (Syracuse University, New York, USA), Changhong Liang (Xidian University, Xi'an, China), Shuxi Gong (Xidian University, Xi'an, China), Luis Emilio Garcia Castillo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Arijit De (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India), Dr. Mengtao Yuan (Syracuse University, New York, USA), Dr. Mary C. Taylor (Syracuse University, New York, USA), and Ms. Yuan Yuan (Xidian University, Xi'an, China) for their continued support in this endeavor. We would also like to express our thanks to Dr. Nan Wang, Mr. Hongwei Zhang, Mr. Ying Yan, Mr. Zenan Yang, Ms. Wenhui Ge, Mr. Shugang Jiang and Mr. Zhaofeng Lv for their help.

Finally, we would also like to thank Dr. David Barkai from Intel Corporation, Dr. John F. Porter from Hewlett Packard, Dr. Joseph F. Skovira from IBM, Prof. Robert A. van de Geijn from the University of Texas, as well as Mr. Fuyong Wang, Mr. Genguo Li, Mr. Jiancheng Wu, Mr. Bo Liu, Mr. Wei Shi, and Mr. Shuanglin Hu of SSC for their support on the supercomputer platform and interest in large-scale CEM computing. In addition, thanks are also due to Mr. Zhao Li and Mr. Haoran Li of Microsoft Co., Ltd for their support on Microsoft HPC Server 2008.

Yu Zhang, Tapan K. Sarkar, Xunwang Zhao, Daniel Garcia Doñoro, Weixin Zhao, Magdalena Salazar-Palma, and Sioweng Ting

January 2012