Abubu.js
The WebGL Computational Library

What is Abubu.js?

Abubu.js is a JavaScript library for scientific computing using WebGL 2.0. It is actively developed Dr. Abouzar Kaboudian currently at Georgia Tech's CHAOS Lab. Abubu.js was originally developed to facilitate cardiac simulations using the GPU.

As Dr. Kaboudian started the development of the cardiac elecrophysiological models using WebGL 2.0, it quickly became clear to him that a lot of the details of problem setup and the GPU pipeline setup was not as much of interest to him as the solution of the models were. He was mostly interested in the real-time simulations and he wanted to be able to interact with the simulations. Subsequently, he started to develop functions that would facilitate his simulations and remove as much as WebGL detail from the JavaScript code and allow him to concentrate on just shader designs and the numerical schemes.

The project quickly turned into a library of functions that he would use on a daily basis. He initially called his library Compute.js, and as other lab members started to use the library, Prof. Flavio H. Fenton refused to accept Compute.js as the library name claiming he should use his nickname in the in the name of the library. Prof. Fenton put the name Abubu.js to vote in the CHAOS Lab and it was accepted unanimously by members.

Abubu.js quickly proved to be useful in many other scientific applications and it was decided that it should be released as an Open Source package to the scientific community. It was initially released for scientific use with the publication of this journal article.

The latest version of the library can now be downloaded from http://abubujs.org/libs/Abubu.latest.js.

We hope that you can adopto Abubu.js in your research to accelerate the pace of your scientific computations.

Credits & Acknowledgements

This code is developed by


We also include dat.GUI for generating graphical user interfaces and glMatrix for view point calculation in our 3D volume ray-caster.

License

Abubu.js is licensed under MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

If you are using this library in a publication, we ask you to cite our original publication as:

Kaboudian, Abouzar, Elizabeth M. Cherry, and Flavio H. Fento. "Real-time interactive simulations of large-scale systems on personal computers and cell phones: Toward patient-specific heart modeling and other applications." Science advances 5, no. 3 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav6019.