Section: Software and Platforms

CEPS: a Cardiac ElectroPhysiology Simulator

The Carmen team develops a software code to perform high performance numerical simulations in cardiac electrophysiology using unstructured three-dimensional grids. The software, called CEPS (Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulation), is developped as a common tool for researchers in the Carmen team and for our partners and colleagues in scientific computing and biomedical engineering. The goal of CEPS is to easily allow the development of new numerical methods and new physical models. Thanks to an ADT, actual developments started at the end of 2012 and still continue.

As compared to other existing softwares, CEPS aims at providing a more general framework of integration for new methods or models and a better efficiency in parallel. CEPS is designed to run on massively parallel architectures, and to make use of state-of-the-art and well known computing libraries to achieve realistic and complex heart simulations. CEPS also includes software engineering and and validation tools [30] . We use the platform GForge (gforge.inria.fr/projects/ceps ) based on Subversion. This allows to keep a history of developments for developers and users.

Some of our collaborators actively participate to the testing and discussion for the development of CEPS, namely:

• C. Pierre, LMA Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour;

• R. Turpault, LMA Université de Nantes;

• L. Gerardo-Giorda, BCAM Bilbao.