Search for: [Abstract = "The modeling of ion\-transport through biological membranes is important for understanding many life processes. The transmembrane potential and ion concentrations in the stationary state can be measured in in\-vivo experiments. They can also be simulated within membrane models. Here we consider a basic model of ion transport that describes the time evolution of ion concentrations and potentials through a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. To reduce the computation time I have developed an application for simulation of the ion\-flows through a membrane starting from an ensemble of initial conditions, optimized for a Graphical Processing Unit \(GPU\). The application has been designed for the CUDA \(Compute Unified Device Architecture\) technology. It is written in CUDA C programming language and runs on NVIDIA TESLA family of numerical accelerators. The calculation speed can be increased almost 1000 times compared with a sequential program running on the Central Processing Unit \(CPU\) of a typical PC."]
