Real-Time Applications

Human Arterial Tree Simulation

URL:
www.teragrid.org

Contact:
Michael E. Papka, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) / University of Chicago, USA, papka @ mcs.anl.gov

Collaborators:
ANL / University of Chicago, USA: Michael E. Papka
Brown University, USA: George Karniadakis, Steve Dong
Northern Illinois University / ANL, USA: Nicholas T. Karonis
ANL, USA: Joseph A. Insley

Brown University researchers are developing the first-ever simulation of the human arterial tree in collaboration with researchers from ANL, Northern Illinois University and the University of Chicago. The human arterial tree model contains the largest 55 arteries in the human body with 27 artery bifurcations at a fine-enough resolution to capture the flow dynamics as well. This requires a total memory of about 3-7 terabytes, which is beyond the current capacity of any single supercomputing site, and therefore harnesses the true power of the TeraGrid by using multiple sites simultaneously to complete a single simulation - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and San Diego Supercomputer Center for the computation, and University of Chicago for the visualization.