The team managed to recreate cell division using the model, although a single pass took almost 10 hours with MATLAB software running on a 128-core Linux cluster.
The study, started in the 1970s in Matlab, compared a group with access to contraception and birth-control education to a similar group that did not have access to those things.
Although financial firms think their models are an important part of their success, development and deployment of new models is often bogged down in bureaucracy, according to survey results released today by MathWorks, the UK developer of MATLAB and Simulink.