Performance comparison of the digital neuromorphic hardware SpiNNaker and the neural network simulation software NEST for a full-scale cortical microcircuit model

SJ Van Albada, AG Rowley, J Senk… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The digital neuromorphic hardware SpiNNaker has been developed with the aim of
enabling large-scale neural network simulations in real time and with low power …

Neuroscience, computing, performance, and benchmarks: Why it matters to neuroscience how fast we can compute

JB Aimone, O Awile, M Diesmann, JC Knight… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
At the turn of the millennium the computational neuroscience community realized that
neuroscience was in a software crisis: software development was no longer progressing as …

Computational geometry for modeling neural populations: From visualization to simulation

M De Kamps, M Lepperød, YM Lai - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The importance of a mesoscopic description level of the brain has now been well
established. Rate based models are widely used, but have limitations. Recently, several …

Event-based update of synapses in voltage-based learning rules

J Stapmanns, J Hahne, M Helias, M Bolten… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Due to the point-like nature of neuronal spiking, efficient neural network simulators often
employ event-based simulation schemes for synapses. Yet many types of synaptic plasticity …

Piece-wise analytic trajectory computation for polytopic switching between stable affine systems

M Rabi - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Our problem is to compute trajectories of a hybrid system that switches between stable affine
ODEs, with switching triggered by hyperplane crossings. Instead of integrating over …

[PDF][PDF] Field theoretical and simulation methods for the investigation of collective dynamics in neural networks

J Stapmanns - 2022 - scholar.archive.org
The human brain, as an example of a complex nervous system, is made up of approximately
8.6⋅ 1011 neurons that communicate with one another via short electrical pulses. There are …

[PDF][PDF] Sacha J. van Albada1*, Andrew G. Rowley2, Johanna Senk1, Michael Hopkins2, Maximilian Schmidt1, 3, Alan B. Stokes2, David R. Lester2, Markus …

The digital neuromorphic hardware SpiNNaker has been developed with the aim of
enabling large-scale neural network simulations in real time and with low power …