Disior Awarded in PRACE SHAPE - August 2017
In the 5th PRACE Call for Applications, Disior was selected as one of the six innovative European companies to receive the project award. The project goal is to bring mechanical analysis from medical research to clinical use with High Performance Computing.
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The Disior project, “Numerical optimization of bone fracture treatment”, uses High Performance Computing to develop a very fast method for implant optimization in maxillofacial surgeries.
SHAPE is a pan-European program that promotes High Performance Computing (HPC) adoption by small and medium sized enterprises. |
PRACE, The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is an international, EU-funded non-profit association, located in Brussels. It provides world-class high-performance computing services for scientists and researchers from academia and industry in Europe.
“Using HPC and parallel computing makes a giant leap in how fast the mechanics that affect a jaw implant can be analyzed and optimized.”, says Sakari Soini, Disior CTO. “This opens up a whole new way of using mechanical optimization in medicine, and makes it accessible to clinical work. Before, using one computer, this type of calculations would have taken hours to complete. With HPC and cloud computing, the calculations are divided to many and so the time it takes gets divided, too.”
“As a use case, think of a surgeon who is planning to fix a broken jaw with a titanium rail. He could use this to get real-time, patient-specific calculations on the forces that different implant options cause on bone. Or, real time input on the implant choices he makes. Previously, this has only been available in research, where you have enough time to wait for the complex calculations.”
For more information:
The PRACE Announcement
www.prace-ri.eu
www.disior.com
“Using HPC and parallel computing makes a giant leap in how fast the mechanics that affect a jaw implant can be analyzed and optimized.”, says Sakari Soini, Disior CTO. “This opens up a whole new way of using mechanical optimization in medicine, and makes it accessible to clinical work. Before, using one computer, this type of calculations would have taken hours to complete. With HPC and cloud computing, the calculations are divided to many and so the time it takes gets divided, too.”
“As a use case, think of a surgeon who is planning to fix a broken jaw with a titanium rail. He could use this to get real-time, patient-specific calculations on the forces that different implant options cause on bone. Or, real time input on the implant choices he makes. Previously, this has only been available in research, where you have enough time to wait for the complex calculations.”
For more information:
The PRACE Announcement
www.prace-ri.eu
www.disior.com
