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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 107
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL, DISTRIBUTED, GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING FOR ENGINEERING
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Paper 23

Development of Cloud Software Services for Computational Analysis of Blood Flows

A. Kaceniauskas1, R. Pacevic1, M. Staškuniene1, V. Starikovicius1 and G. Davidavicius2

1Laboratory of Parallel Computing, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
2Centre of Cardiology and Angiology, Vilnius University Hospital "Santariškiu Klinikos", Lithuania

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
, "Development of Cloud Software Services for Computational Analysis of Blood Flows", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 23, 2015. doi:10.4203/ccp.107.23
Keywords: cloud computing, software as a service, OpenStack, blood flows, aortic valve, ANSYS Fluent, performance analysis.

Summary
This paper presents the development of the cloud software services for computational analysis of blood flows on a private university cloud. The main focus is on the software service level built on the top of the computational platform provided. Moreover, user friendly management tools have been developed by using the Apache jclouds API to enhance the management of OpenStack cloud infrastructure and to increase the accessibility of engineering software. The blood flow through an aortic valve is considered as a pilot application of the private cloud infrastructure. The investigated flows can be described using numerical models based on viscous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The modelling software environment based on ANSYS Fluent is developed as a software service (SaaS) for the numerical analysis of low flow, low pressure gradient aortic stenosis. The performance of the developed cloud infrastructure has been assessed testing CPU, memory IO, disk IO, network and the developed software service for computations of blood flow through an aortic valve. The results obtained have been compared with the performance obtained using the native hardware.

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