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Re: [cellml-discussion] [[cellml-dev] ] DENIS@home project


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  • From: Jacob Pollack <jacob18 AT comcast.net>
  • To: cellml-discussion AT cellml.org
  • Subject: Re: [cellml-discussion] [[cellml-dev] ] DENIS@home project
  • Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 22:21:55 -0400
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David,

Thanks for sharing! I am interested in this project.

Thanks,
Jacob

On Jul 29, 2015, at 12:06 AM, David Nickerson
<david.nickerson AT gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just to let you know about this capability that Jesús and others at
> San Jorge University are making available. Seems like it might be a
> good way to get large electrophysiology simulations executed.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jesús Carro Fernández
> <jcarro AT usj.es>
> Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:22 AM
> Subject: [[cellml-dev] ] DENIS@home project
> To:
> cellml-tools-developers AT lists.cellml.org
> Cc: Joel Castro Mur
> <jcastro AT usj.es>
>
>
> I'm writing in this list to share with you a new CellML-based project
> we have started a few months ago: DENIS (Distributed computing,
> Electrophysiological models, Networking collaboration, In silico
> research, Sharing knowledge).
>
> The idea of the project is to create a network of volunteers which
> will simulate a lot of variations of a CellML model. Using CellML
> files, the CellML API and the BOINC API, we are able to create a
> program that solves the CellML model in a BOINC project. Each
> volunteer receives the program and a configuration file which
> indicates: the model to simulate, the model constants to modify and
> the model variables to save. Until now, the solver is very simple but
> we want to improve it to permit to simulate fibers, tissues, etc.
>
> The volunteer computing permits us to create a grid with a very high
> average floating point operations per second with a very low cost. Our
> idea is to open it to any researcher who needs computational capacity
> through a web interface. While we reach this goal, if any one wants to
> use the network, please, fell free to contact us. We can do it in a
> more "hand-made" way. We are open to sugestions, comments or ideas
> that could improve the project.
>
> Finally, if you could share the project to get more volunteers, we
> will be very thankful. You can find more information on
> http://denis.usj.es and more statistics of the network on
> http://boincstats.com/en/stats/160/project/detail/overview
>
> Syncerelly,
>
> Jesús Carro Fernández
> San Jorge University
>
>
> --
>
>
> David Nickerson
> about.me/david.nickerson



  • Re: [cellml-discussion] [[cellml-dev] ] DENIS@home project, Jacob Pollack, 08/03/2015

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