A distributed and multithreaded neural event driven simulation framework

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, as part of the 24th IASTED International Multi-Conference on APPLIED INFORMATICS

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 212-217

  Mouraud, Anthony ^a,b   Paugam Moisy, Hélène ^a   Puzenat, Didier ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

Event driven simulations; Multi threading; Parallel computing; Scheduling; Spiking neural networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

EVENT DRIVEN SIMULATIONS; MULTI THREADING; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS; WORKSTATION CLUSTERS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 34047113962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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