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GPU Accelerated Analysis of Treg-Teff Cross Regulation in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
- Source :
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN: 9783030105488, Euro-Par Workshops
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Verlag, 2019.
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Abstract
- The computational analysis of complex biological systems can be hindered by two main factors. First, modeling the system so that it can be easily understood and analyzed by non-expert users is not always possible, especially when dealing with systems of Ordinary Differential Equations. Second, when the system is composed of hundreds or thousands of reactions and chemical species, the classic CPU-based simulators could not be appropriate to efficiently derive the behavior of the system. To overcome these limitations, in this paper we propose a novel approach that combines the descriptive power of Stochastic Symmetric Nets–a Petri Net formalism that allows modeler to describe the system in a parametric and compact manner–with LASSIE, a GPU-powered deterministic simulator that offloads onto the GPU the calculations required to execute many simulations by following both fine-grained and coarse-grained parallelization strategies. This pipeline has been applied to carry out a parameter sweep analysis of a relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis model, aimed at understanding the role of possible malfunctions in the cross-balancing mechanisms that regulate peripheral tolerance of self-reactive T lymphocytes. From our experiments, LASSIE achieves around \(97\times \) speed-up with respect to the sequential execution of the same number of simulations.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Multiple sclerosis, GPGPU computing, Petri nets, Parameter sweep analysis
Settore INF/01 - Informatica
Computer science
Computer Science (all)
INF/01 - INFORMATICA
Petri nets
Parallel computing
Petri net
GPGPU computing
Multiple sclerosis
Parameter sweep analysis
Cross regulation
Theoretical Computer Science
03 medical and health sciences
Formalism (philosophy of mathematics)
030104 developmental biology
0302 clinical medicine
Relapsing remitting
Ordinary differential equation
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Parametric statistics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-3-030-10548-8
- ISBNs :
- 9783030105488
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN: 9783030105488, Euro-Par Workshops
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a0230c5f3822acccce076eca373f8adb