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HEMELB Acceleration and Visualization for Cerebral Aneurysms
A weakness in the wall of a cerebral artery causing a dilation or ballooning
of the blood vessel is known as a cerebral aneurysm. Optimal treatment requires
fast and accurate diagnosis of the aneurysm. HemeLB is a fluid dynamics solver
for complex geometries developed to provide neurosurgeons with information
related to the flow of blood in and around aneurysms. On a cost efficient
platform, HemeLB could be employed in hospitals to provide surgeons with the
simulation results in real-time. In this work, we developed an improved version
of HemeLB for GPU implementation and result visualization. A visualization
platform for smooth interaction with end users is also presented. Finally, a
comprehensive evaluation of this implementation is reported. The results
demonstrate that the proposed implementation achieves a maximum performance of
15,168,964 site updates per second, and is capable of speeding up HemeLB for
deployment in hospitals and clinical investigations