Towards Distributed Multiscale Simulation of Biological Processes

Author

Bernsdorf, Jörg ; Berti, Guntram ; Chopard, Bastien ; Hegewald, Jan ; Krafczyk, Manfred ; Wang, Dinan ; Lorenz, Eric ; Hoekstra, Alfons

Author_Institution

German Res. Sch. for Simulation Sci., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

5-8 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

96

Abstract

The understanding of biological processes, e.g. related to cardio-vascular disease and treatment, can significantly be improved by numerical simulation. In this paper, we present an approach for a multiscale simulation environment, applied for the prediction of in-stent re-stenos is. Our focus is on the coupling of distributed, heterogeneous hardware to take into account the different requirements of the coupled sub-systems concerning computing power. For such a concept, which is an extension of the standard multiscale computing approach, we want to apply the term Distributed Multiscale Computing.

Keywords

biology computing; digital simulation; diseases; distributed processing; numerical analysis; biological process; cardio-vascular disease; cardio-vascular treatment; distributed heterogeneous hardware; distributed multiscale computing; distributed multiscale simulation environment; in-stent restenosis; numerical simulation; Automata; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Couplings; Drugs; Muscles; Numerical models; complex automata; in-stent re-stenosis; lattice Boltzmann; multiscale simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Science Workshops (eScienceW), 2011 IEEE Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0026-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eScienceW.2011.19

Filename

6130736