| Authors | F. V. Lionetti, A. D. McCulloch and S. Baden |
| Title | GPU Accelerated Cardiac Electrophysiology |
| Afilliation | Scientific Computing, , , Scientific Computing |
| Project(s) | Center for Biomedical Computing (SFF) |
| Status | Submitted |
| Publication Type | Proceedings, refereed |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Parallel Computing |
| Abstract | Computational models of cardiac electrophysiology require the integration of large and complex systems of ordinary differential equations. This poses special challenges on a GPU architecture owing to the large numbers of state variables required to describe the detailed biophysics of the ion channels in the cardiac muscle cells. We describe a system for generating efficient CUDA C from high level mathematical expressions and their solution within large three-dimensional, anatomically realistic multi-scale models of whole heart electrical activation. Significant performance improvements over CPU clusters are presented. |
| Citation Key | Simula.acdc.74 |