Large scale cardiac modeling on the Blue Gene supercomputer

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 577-580

  Reumann, Matthias ^a   Fitch, Blake G ^a   Rayshubskiy, Aleksandr ^a   Keller, David U ^b   Weiss, Daniel L ^b   Seemann, Gunnar ^b   Dössel, Olaf ^b   Pitman, Michael C ^a   Rice, John J ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Multi physical heart models; Optimal recursive bisection; Parallel supercomputer

Indexed keywords

BALANCING; GENES; HEART; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL LIMITATIONS; HEART MODEL; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; MONODOMAIN EQUATIONS; OPTIMAL RECURSIVE; PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION;

EID: 61849112666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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