Hardware and performance considerations for computational medicine

Abstract

Computer-aided simulations have a profound impact on day-to-day operations in medical centers. They represent one of the building blocks towards personalized medicine, which allows the treatment of patients and diseases on an individual basis. The computation requirements of these simulations can be, however, tremendous, posing unique challenges to software and hardware infrastructure. In this chapter we discuss recent computer hardware developments and evaluate them based on two representative application to understand how the new hardware can be used to reduce the execution time of these applications.