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A Software Architecture for Multi-Cellular System Simulations on Graphics Processing Units

Pascal Ballet
Vincent Rodin
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The first aim of simulation in virtual environment is to help biologists to have a better understanding of the simulated system. The cost of such simulation is significantly reduced compared to that of in vivo simulation. However, the inherent complexity of biological system makes it hard to simulate these systems on non-parallel architectures: models might be made of sub-models and take several scales into account; the number of simulated entities may be quite large. Today, graphics cards are used for general purpose computing which has been made easier thanks to frameworks like CUDA or OpenCL. Parallelization of models may however not be easy: parallel computer programing skills are often required; several hardware architectures may be used to execute models. In this paper, we present the software architecture we built in order to implement various models able to simulate multi-cellular system. This architecture is modular and it implements data structures adapted for graphics processing units architectures. It allows efficient simulation of biological mechanisms.
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hal-00952311 , version 1 (26-02-2014)

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Anne Jeannin-Girardon, Pascal Ballet, Vincent Rodin. A Software Architecture for Multi-Cellular System Simulations on Graphics Processing Units. Acta Biotheoretica, 2013, 61 (3), pp.317-327. ⟨10.1007/s10441-013-9187-3⟩. ⟨hal-00952311⟩
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