A System For A Distributed Computation Of A Dynamic Triangulated Surface Simulation And Its Analysis

A dynamic triangulated surface simulations used in modelling lipid bilayers are time consuming. Frequently, the phase space of multiple parameters needs to be investigated by simulating each parameter set. Concurrent running of multiple simulations in parallel accelerates the investigation of the phase space. In the paper, we present a system for a parallel computation of a triangulated surface simulations using a simulator trisurf. A method of voluntary computing was applied, using a server-client technology. The simulator itself becomes the computing part of the system that is being executed on the client side and waits for a workload from the server. Besides, being a workload distributor, the server also acts as a simulation results collector and data archiver. The analysis of the data and metadata is performed on the server itself using a standard web browser. The technology used for the data analysis is the Jupyter notebook. The system is engineered based on experiences with similar systems and following good research practices for result reproducibility.