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Project: Simulation in Titanium
Student Researchers: Szu-Huey Chuang, Carrie Fei, Ellen Tsai
Advisor: Katherine Yelick
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Understanding fluid flow in the human body is an important component in
the prevention and treatment of disease. For example, detailed models of
the human heart and blood clotting are used in the design of artificial
heart valves, and similar models are needed for many other aspects of biological
research. Simulation of these systems requires large-scale parallel machines,
which are difficult to manage and program. To simplify programming, the
Titanium group at Berkeley has developed a high performance
dialect of Java for programming large-scale parallel machines, and they
have an implementation of the human heart model in Titanium. The goal of
the proposed research is to implement a second application within this framework
and to analyze the performance of the systems and the generality of the
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