Scalable parallel preconditioners for an open source cardiac electrophysiology simulation package

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 821-830

  Bernabeu, Miguel O ^a   Kay, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bidomain simulation; Chaste; Open source; Parallel preconditioning

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRIDS; APPROXIMATION METHODS; BIDOMAIN; BIDOMAIN EQUATION; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHASTE; EXECUTION TIME; FINITE ELEMENT DISCRETISATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL TOOLS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; IONIC MODELS; MATRIX; MULTISCALES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPEN SOURCE; OPEN SOURCES; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARALLEL PRECONDITIONERS; PARALLEL PRECONDITIONING; PARALLEL SCALABILITY; PRACTICAL METHOD; PRECONDITIONERS; SIMULATION PACKAGES; SUB-BLOCKS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NEUROLOGY; TISSUE;

HEART;

EID: 79958283346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2011.04.087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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