Abstract
eVolutus is a new software platform designed for modeling evolutionary and population dynamics of living organisms. Single-celled eukaryotes, foraminifera, are selected as model organisms that have occupied the marine realm for at least 500 Ma and left an extraordinary fossil record preserved in microscopic shells. This makes them ideal objects for testing general evolutionary hypotheses based on studying multiscale genotypic, phenotypic, ecologic and macroevolutionary patterns. Our platform provides a highly configurable environment for conducting evolutionary experiments at various spatiotemporal scales.
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The name “kernel” used in CUDA or OpenCL GPU programming means a short function executed by many GPU processing units in parallel.
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The research presented in the paper received partial support from Polish National Science Center (DEC-2013/09/B/ST10/01734).
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Topa, P. et al. (2016). eVolutus: A New Platform for Evolutionary Experiments. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Deelman, E., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K., Kitowski, J., Wiatr, K. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9574. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32152-3_53
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