Some HPC success stories are too powerful to ignore. Though HPC for Energy focuses on the advancement of energy technologies through HPC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and IBM’s recent efforts to model the human heart deserve recognition for demonstrating the new level of scientific accomplishment made increasingly possible through HPC capabilities here in the US.
To develop better therapies for heart disease, LLNL and IBM developed a new code known as “Cardioid” and ran simulations on Sequoia, a Blue Gene/Q supercomputer currently ranked 2nd in the world.
What are the results? Modeling that used to take 45 minutes now happens in real time. Scientists can now simulate thousands of heartbeats when only a dozen or so were possible before. Models used to be 1/100th the size, and this collaboration has produced the first model to harness the power of 1.5 million computer cores. This work “opens the door for personalized models to rapidly predict better, safer therapies for real patients.”
Learn more about “The Cardioid Project” on the IBM Research Blog.
