Run-time interoperability between neuronal network simulators based on the MUSIC framework

Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-60

  Djurfeldt, Mikael ^a,b   Hjorth, Johannes ^a   Eppler, Jochen M ^c,d   Dudani, Niraj ^e   Helias, Moritz ^d   Potjans, Tobias C ^f,g   Bhalla, Upinder S ^e   Diesmann, Markus ^b,d,g   Kotaleski, Jeanette Hellgren ^a   Ekeberg, Örjan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^g RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational neuroscience; Computer simulation; Inter operability; Large scale simulation; MPI; MUSIC; Neuronal network models; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77953106373     PISSN: 15392791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12021-010-9064-z     Document Type: Article

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