“HPC for biomaterials: Why does it hurt to play soccer (and baseball)”

The 1st R-CCS International Symposium 19 Feb,2019
"HPC for biomaterials: Why does it hurt to play soccer (and baseball)"

Materials - be it a shoe sole or an achilles tendon - respond to mechanical stress involving length scales all the way down to atoms and electrons, rendering computational materials science a prime application area of HPC. I will show how large-scale simulations of collagen have fundamentally changed our understanding how tension in this biomaterial, in our achilles tendon or muscle, can increase pain or muscle sour. I will give an outlook on how exascale can go beyond these achievements. The vision is to watch microcracking in materials all the way to failure, at relevant dimensions and yet at atomistic detail.

Frauke Gräter
(HITS)