This week
I’ve been doing some work on language with a few of the bright young things from Barcelona
Supercomputing Centre (BSC.)
It’s easy
to get preoccupied with all the daily bad news around but they are doing some
incredible things right here in this city.
Using MareNostrum, one of the world’s largest
and most powerful super-computers, BSC have recently sequenced the tomato gene and played an important part in striving
to improve the half-life of transplanted
human livers.
They have
also created a model “computational
heart” which they named Alya Red.
The video they produced won two international
awards this year and can be seen below…
BSC rightly
called our hearts “the most perfect pump that
millions of years of evolution have created.”
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