A component-based extension framework for large-scale parallel simulations in NEURON

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2009, Pages

  King, James G ^a   Hines, Michael ^b   Hill, Sean ^a   Goodman, Philip H ^c   Markram, Henry ^a   Schürmann, Felix ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed; Large scale simulation; Neuron simulator; Parallel

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953478463     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.11.010.2009     Document Type: Article

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