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Simulation of action potential propagation on cardiac tissues represents both a computational and memory intensive task. The use of detailed ionic cellular models, combined with its application into three-dimensional geometries turn simulation into a problem only affordable, in reasonable time, with High Performance Computing techniques. This paper presents a complete and efficient parallel system for the simulation of the action potential propagation on a three-dimensional parallelepiped modelization of a ventricular cardiac tissue. This simulator has been integrated into a Grid Computing system, what allows an increase of productivity in cardiac case studies by performing multiple concurrent parallel executions on distributed computational resources of a Grid.
The authors wish to thank the financial support received from (1) the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology to develop the projects CAMAEC (TIC2001-2686) and GRID-IT (TIC2003-01318), and (2) the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia for the CAMAV project (20020418).
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Alonso, J.M., Ferrero, J.M., Hernández, V., Moltó, G., Monserrat, M., Saiz, J. (2005). Three-Dimensional Cardiac Electrical Activity Simulation on Cluster and Grid Platforms . In: Daydé, M., Dongarra, J., Hernández, V., Palma, J.M.L.M. (eds) High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2004. VECPAR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11403937_18
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