Strong scaling and speedup to 16,384 processors in cardiac electro: Mechanical simulations

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2795-2798

  Reumann, Matthias ^a   Fitch, Blake G ^a   Rayshubskiy, Aleksandr ^a   Keller, David U J ^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 KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TISSUE;

BLUE GENE/L SUPERCOMPUTER; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY SYSTEMS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; HEART MODEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER; RECURSIVE BISECTION;

HEART;

EID: 77950988535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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