Volunteer Computing Approach for the Collaborative Simulation of Electrophysiological Models

Electrophysiological simulations are computationally expensive tasks. These kinds of simulations are usually run on super-computers or clusters, which may be expensive or difficult to access. In this work we present DENIS@Home, a simulation platform that follows the Volunteer Computing paradigm. DENIS@Home is based on BOINC, a volunteer computer environment used worldwide, and on Cell ML, an open standard for mathematical modeling. In this paper we describe the system and show its advantages over more traditional approaches, and also discuss its potential utility for the scientific community.