Parallel BioScape: A Stochastic and Parallel Language for Mobile and Spatial Interactions

Autor: Adriana Compagnoni, Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Paola Giannini, Karin Sauer, Vishakha Sharma, Angelo Troina
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol 100, Iss Proc. MeCBIC 2012, Pp 101-106 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-2180
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.100.7
Popis: BioScape is a concurrent language motivated by the biological landscapes found at the interface of biology and biomaterials. It has been motivated by the need to model antibacterial surfaces, biofilm formation, and the effect of DNAse in treating and preventing biofilm infections. As its predecessor, SPiM, BioScape has a sequential semantics based on Gillespie's algorithm, and its implementation does not scale beyond 1000 agents. However, in order to model larger and more realistic systems, a semantics that may take advantage of the new multi-core and GPU architectures is needed. This motivates the introduction of parallel semantics, which is the contribution of this paper: Parallel BioScape, an extension with fully parallel semantics.
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