Enabling computer models of the heart for high-performance computers and the grid

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1843, 2006, Pages 1501-1516

  Pitt Francis, Joe ^a   Garny, Alan ^a   Gavaghan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac modelling; Grid computing; High performance computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745136438     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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