With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now | Quanta Magazine
But this need for visuals makes things computationally harder, right?
Yes, a big pain for us right now is the level of data. It’s a lot of data. We’re running simulations with up to 580 million red blood cells. There’s interactions with the fluid and red blood cells, the cells with each other, the cells with the walls — you’re trying to capture all of that. For each model, one time point might be half a terabyte, and there are millions of time steps in each heartbeat. It’s really computationally...
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