Simulating human cardiac physiology on clinical time-scales
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Author(s)
Niederer, S
Mitchell, L
Smith, N
Plank, G
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In this study, the feasibility of conducting in silico experiments in near-realtime with anatomically realistic, biophysically detailed models of human cardiac electrophysiology is demonstrated using a current national high-performance computing facility. The required performance is achieved by integrating and optimizing load balancing and parallel I/O, which lead to strongly scalable simulations up to 16,384 compute cores. This degree of parallelization enables computer simulations of human cardiac electrophysiology at 240 times slower than real time and activation times can be simulated in approximately 1 min. This unprecedented speed suffices requirements for introducing in silico experimentation into a clinical workflow.
Date Issued
2011-04-09
Date Acceptance
2011-03-26
Citation
Frontiers in Physiology, 2011, 2, pp.1-7
ISSN
1664-042X
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Start Page
1
End Page
7
Journal / Book Title
Frontiers in Physiology
Volume
2
Copyright Statement
© 2011 Niederer, Mitchell, Smith and Plank. This is an open-access article subject to a non-exclusive license between the authors and Frontiers Media SA, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and other Frontiers conditions are complied with.
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Physiology
monodomain model
personalized health care
strong scalability
Article Number
14