Nizhny’s CyberHeart built on Russia’s sixth largest supercomputer
The CyberHeart is expected to help test new drugs and medical instruments, and show the efficacy of new therapies
Nov 24, 2015
The Lobachevsky, Russia’s sixth most powerful supercomputer created at Lobachevsky UNN, the largest university in the region of Nizhny Novgorod in the mid-Volga area, has helped university scientists develop the CyberHeart, a software and hardware complex to be funded by the Russian government, the Russian news agency TASS reported.
The three-year project, aimed at developing a 3D model of the human heart, earlier this fall won a federal competition for government subsidies to develop high-tech production. The university is now expecting a $2.7m Russian government grant to push the effort.
"We have come up with a computer model of the human heart which is necessary first and foremost for tests and experiments. Such experiments on a living body are impermissible, while on a computer, we can run anything and see how it works," TASS quoted Grigory Osipov, the developer of the new system and head of a chair at UNN’s Department of Computing Mathematics and Cybernetics, as saying.
The CyberHeart is expected to help test new drugs and medical instruments, and show the efficacy of new therapies.
Using a system-generated model will enable physicians to monitor cardiac development dynamics as the heart is impacted by various drugs or other conditions/circumstances over a several year period.
"Our model is universal and can be customized to suit the needs of a specific patient and his heart. All the data requited for monitoring, including tomography scanning or ECG data, is processed by the software to draw a picture of a particular heart. That will enable us to choose the best possible therapy for this patient as we proceed to tests," Mr. Osipov said.
According to Viktor Gergel, the director of UNN’s Institute of IT, Mathematics and Mechanics, the new complex is designed to help "tens of thousands of cardiovascular patients choose therapies, prevent complications and, probably, save lives."
The scientist added that UNN has been in talks with regional medical institutions over the introduction of this new hardware and software complex.
Marchmont News described some specifics of this endeavor earlier this month in this news story.
Making a virtual clone of a human organ, the Nizhny team said, is a complex problem and outstanding computing experiment that could hardly have been possible without the Lobachevsky, the UNN supercomputer that was launched last year.
Its peak capacity is about 350 teraflops, with one teraflop meaning a trillion floating-point operations per second.
The Lobachevsky is now Russia’s sixth most powerful supercomputer and earlier this month joined the global Top-500.
The three-year project, aimed at developing a 3D model of the human heart, earlier this fall won a federal competition for government subsidies to develop high-tech production. The university is now expecting a $2.7m Russian government grant to push the effort.
"We have come up with a computer model of the human heart which is necessary first and foremost for tests and experiments. Such experiments on a living body are impermissible, while on a computer, we can run anything and see how it works," TASS quoted Grigory Osipov, the developer of the new system and head of a chair at UNN’s Department of Computing Mathematics and Cybernetics, as saying.
The CyberHeart is expected to help test new drugs and medical instruments, and show the efficacy of new therapies.
Using a system-generated model will enable physicians to monitor cardiac development dynamics as the heart is impacted by various drugs or other conditions/circumstances over a several year period.
"Our model is universal and can be customized to suit the needs of a specific patient and his heart. All the data requited for monitoring, including tomography scanning or ECG data, is processed by the software to draw a picture of a particular heart. That will enable us to choose the best possible therapy for this patient as we proceed to tests," Mr. Osipov said.
According to Viktor Gergel, the director of UNN’s Institute of IT, Mathematics and Mechanics, the new complex is designed to help "tens of thousands of cardiovascular patients choose therapies, prevent complications and, probably, save lives."
The scientist added that UNN has been in talks with regional medical institutions over the introduction of this new hardware and software complex.
Marchmont News described some specifics of this endeavor earlier this month in this news story.
Making a virtual clone of a human organ, the Nizhny team said, is a complex problem and outstanding computing experiment that could hardly have been possible without the Lobachevsky, the UNN supercomputer that was launched last year.
Its peak capacity is about 350 teraflops, with one teraflop meaning a trillion floating-point operations per second.
The Lobachevsky is now Russia’s sixth most powerful supercomputer and earlier this month joined the global Top-500.