"Adapting a cardiac tissue model to run on a parallel machine with distributed memory"

Supervised by Dr RH Clayton

Abstract

Cardiac arrhythmia is the main cause of premature deaths in humans. This fact calls for in-depth research to understand and find the cause of cardiac arrhythmia. This dissertation is a small part of this research.

The main aim of the project is to find a parallel solution of an existing serial code which is flexible enough to use any cardiac model for any form of medium. For this project the four variables Fenton-Karma model was used. Three parallel solutions have been developed with an aim to achieve higher efficiency than the serial code. MPI library is used to make parallel solutions. Ian foster design methodology was modified and used for this project.