Accelerating cardiac excitation spread simulations using graphics processing units

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 708-720

  Rocha, B M ^a   Campos, F O ^b   Amorim, R M ^c   Plank, G ^b,e   Santos, R W Dos ^c   Liebmann, M ^d   Haase, G ^d  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cardiac electrophysiology; graphic processing units; high performance computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART; NEUROLOGY; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF THE HEART; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS (GPUS); HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MANY-CORE PROCESSORS; SYSTEM OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 79953284032     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1683     Document Type: Article

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