World's biggest heart model simulated

Researchers from the Université de Montréal have used a supercomputer to conduct the largest-ever mathematical simulation of the electrical activity of a human heart – a 2 billion element model – to provide new insight into cardiac and other illnesses. Until recently, the world’s largest simulated hearts had a few million elements at most. The UdeM simulation was up to 1,000 times more detailed than previous models and will enable new scientific discoveries that would never have been possible otherwise.