Efficient parallel simulation of large-scale neuronal networks on clusters of multiprocessor computers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4641 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 672-681

  Plesser, Hans E ^a   Eppler, Jochen M ^b,c   Morrison, Abigail ^d   Diesmann, Markus ^c,d   Gewaltig, Marc Oliver ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; USER INTERFACES;

HYBRID PARALLELIZATION; MULTICORE COMPUTERS; NEURAL SIMULATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 38049110006     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74466-5_71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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