Advanced computing center boosts research at Johns Hopkins

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Johns Hopkins biomedical engineer Natalia Trayanova builds computer models of real, troubled hearts. The pulse of her project beats from a cluster of white buildings packed with electronic processors and storage on Johns Hopkins' Bayview campus.

Backed with this computational power, Trayanova and her team pursue treatments for heart disease that are more effective because they're tailored to the specific patient and tested on that patient's virtual heart.