This communication presents an efficient massively parallel finite element method solver for the solution of complex and electrically large electromagnetic problems with arbitrary structures. The solver makes use of a domain decomposition algorithm to decompose the original problem into several non-overlapping sub-domains that may be solved independently in parallel through the application of the corresponding transmission conditions on the interfaces of the adjacent sub-domains. A numerical exact mesh truncation algorithm called finite element-iterative integral equation evaluation, accelerated with multilevel fast multipole algorithm, is implemented to meet the highly accurate requirements of today's challenging simulations. What's more, a hybrid message passing interface and an open multi-processing parallel framework are designed to achieve large-scale parallel performance on supercomputers. Through several numerical examples, the accuracy, effectiveness, and scalability of the proposed solver will be demonstrated, achieving more than 60% parallel efficiency on an eight times CPU core scale (from 1280 to 10 240 cores).
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