Analysis of a contractile torus simulation in Titanium

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the use of the Titanium language, a high-performance Java dialect, and parallel programming practices on an application of the Immersed Boundary (IB) Method for simulating biological processes. We will compare two Titanium implementations of the IB Method in terms of performance, developer productivity, and use of Titanium features. The first implementation makes use of Titanium’s scientific computing and parallelization features. The second uses Java features for data structures and Titanium for parallelism. We analyze the libraries using a contractile torus simulation as a sample application, a simple model of elastic fibers suspended in viscous, incompressible fluid. The implementation of the simple model precedes th