Insilicosim: An extendable engine for parallel heterogeneous biophysical simulations

SIMUTools 2010 - 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Heien, Eric M ^a   Okita, Masao ^a   Asai, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nomura, Taishin ^a   Hagihara, Kenichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological modeling; Biological simulation; Biophysical simulation; Extendable simulation; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; ENGINES; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS;

BIOLOGICAL MODELING; BIOLOGICAL SIMULATION; BIOPHYSICAL SIMULATION; EXTENDABLE SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS; PARALLEL COMPUTING PLATFORM; PARALLEL SYNCHRONIZATION;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 84922894923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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