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Models of electrical activation and myocardial mechanics at the whole organ level are being developed using parallel computing techniques on both shared memory and distributed memory architectures. The development of high performance code for solving the reaction-diffusion equations governing electrical propagation in cardiac tissue is proceding on two fronts: One is the algorithmic development, in particular using multi-grid techniques for accelerating the convergence of iterative solvers. The other is the development of distributed memory code using MPI (Message Passing Interface) for parallel processing on the new distributed memory cluster. This new open source code is called openCMISS.