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Neic, A; Liebmann, M; Hoetzl, E; Mitchell, L; Vigmond, EJ; Haase, G; Plank, G; .
Accelerating Cardiac Bidomain Simulations Using Graphics Processing Units.
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2012; 59(8):2281-2290 Doi: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2202661 [OPEN ACCESS]
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Leading authors Med Uni Graz: Neic Aurel-Vasile; Plank Gernot
Co-authors Med Uni Graz: Hötzl Elena
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Abstract:: Anatomically realistic and biophysically detailed multiscale computer models of the heart are playing an increasingly important role in advancing our understanding of integrated cardiac function in health and disease. Such detailed simulations, however, are computationally vastly demanding, which is a limiting factor for a wider adoption of in-silico modeling. While current trends in high-performance computing (HPC) hardware promise to alleviate this problem, exploiting the potential of such architectures remains challenging since strongly scalable algorithms are necessitated to reduce execution times. Alternatively, acceleration technologies such as graphics processing units (GPUs) are being considered. While the potential of GPUs has been demonstrated in various applications, benefits in the context of bidomain simulations where large sparse linear systems have to be solved in parallel with advanced numerical techniques are less clear. In this study, the feasibility of multi-GPU bidomain simulations is demonstrated by running strong scalability benchmarks using a state-of-the-art model of rabbit ventricles. The model is spatially discretized using the finite element methods (FEM) on fully unstructured grids. The GPU code is directly derived from a large pre-existing code, the Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Package (CARP), with very minor perturbation of the code base. Overall, bidomain simulations were sped up by a factor of 11.8 to 16.3 in benchmarks running on 6-20 GPUs compared to the same number of CPU cores. To match the fastest GPU simulation which engaged 20 GPUs, 476 CPU cores were required on a national supercomputing facility.
Find related publications in this database (using NLM MeSH Indexing): Algorithms -; Animals -; Computer Graphics -; Computing Methodologies -; Heart Ventricles - anatomy and histology; Models, Cardiovascular -; Rabbits -; Ventricular Function -
Find related publications in this database (Keywords): Algebraic multigrid; domain decomposition; strong scalability; high-performance computing (HPC)