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Wenfeng Shen¹, Daming Wei, Weimin Xu

¹Biomedical Information Technology Lab, The University of Aizu, Uegami 90, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima 965-8580, Japan.

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Parallel computing on personal computers accelerates biological simulations. Utilizing a multi-core CPU and GPU significantly speeds up electrocardiogram (ECG) modeling, making high-performance computing accessible.

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Area of Science:

Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Medical Simulation

Background:

Biological modeling and simulation, such as electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis, typically demand high-performance computing (HPC) resources.
Personal computers (PCs) with advanced hardware offer potential for accelerating these computationally intensive tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

To implement and evaluate parallel computation for ECG simulations on a PC.
To assess the performance gains using different hardware configurations, including multi-core CPUs and GPUs.

Main Methods:

Developed a parallel computation implementation for ECG simulation using OpenMP and CUDA on a PC with an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU and Geforce GPU.
Tested three configurations: CPU-only, GPU + 1 CPU core, and GPU + 4 CPU cores.
Applied a load-prediction dynamic scheduling algorithm for optimal resource utilization in the combined CPU-GPU setup.

Main Results:

Achieved speedups of 3.9x (CPU-only), 16.8x (GPU + 1 core), and 20.0x (GPU + 4 cores) compared to serial computation for 1600 time steps.
Demonstrated significant performance improvements with the integration of a general-purpose GPU alongside a multi-core CPU.

Conclusions:

Current PCs equipped with multi-core CPUs and GPUs are suitable for parallel computations in biological modeling.
This approach democratizes access to HPC for complex simulations like ECG modeling, reducing reliance on dedicated clusters.