The Stanford Living Heart Project is uniting industry-leading researchers, doctors, educators, and technology manufacturers to develop a new standard for drug testing with Hybrid HPC. The results are changing lives.
Imagine creating a treatment plan for a patient on the other side of the world, or testing a drug without ever putting subjects at risk. 3D modeling and simulation tools have opened the door to a new age of healthcare. Operations like the Living Heart Project are uniting industry-leading researchers, doct
Today, life sciences organizations are harnessing modeling and simulation tools backed by the latest high performance computing (HPC) innovations to virtually analyze their patients’ health records, plan therapies, and practice surgical procedures. These realistic models will serve as a common technology base for education and training, medical device design, testing, clinical diagnosis, and regulatory science—working to both enhance and accelerate patient care.
Next-generation technology for modern healthcare
The latest Living Heart Project, a study on drug-induced heart arrhythmias, resulted from the cooperation between Stanford University, Dassault Systèmes, UberCloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Advania. The collaboration received three prestigious HPC awards during SC’17.
The Living Matter Laboratory of Stanford University is now using HPC simulations to study the potentially lethal side effects of drugs—such as heart arrhythmias, which occur when electrical activity in the heart turns chaotic. Utilizing a multi-scale 3D model, researchers can monitor blood circulation and predict the risk of drug-induced arrhythmias, based on a variety of cell types within the tissue. The model allows researchers to assess the response of new drug compounds (like Quinidine – below) quickly and cost-effectively before it is released on the market.
The digital healthcare revolution
HPC is driving major breakthroughs in life sciences and becoming foundational to success. Today, HPE is harnessing the extreme scalability of the cloud to maximize agility and scalability both on and off-premises. In order to support groundbreaking efforts like the Living Heart Project, HPE is building a network of worldwide and regional HPC Cloud service providers to deliver capabilities that are changing lives.
Utilizing a Hybrid HPC approach, the Living Heart Project and its partners designed a simulation software tool to ensure optimal performance, usability, and security. With the creation of this innovative heart model, researchers will have the opportunity to increase the number of successful drugs on the market and rapidly improve patient care, while decreasing the time and cost of production.
The Living Heart Project was presented three prestigious awards for their efforts in HPC simulation, including the Hyperion Award for Innovation Excellence, the HPCwire E
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Bill Mannel
VP & GM - HPC & AI Segment Solutions
Bill Mannel
Vice President and GM HPE Servers
BillMannel
As the Vice President and General Manager of HPC and AI Segment Solutions in the Data Center Infrastructure Group, I lead worldwide business and portfolio strategy and execution for the fastest growing market segments in HPE’s Data Center Infrastructure Group which includes the recent SGI acquisition and the HPE Apollo portfolio.
