SpiNNaker: Impact of traffic locality, causality and burstiness on the performance of the interconnection network

CF 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Computing Frontiers Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-19

  Navaridas, Javier ^a   Plana, Luis A ^b   Miguel Alonso, Jose ^a   Luján, Mikel ^b   Furber, Steve B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

interconnection networks; massively parallel systems; performance evaluation; power efficient architectures; real time applications; spiking neural networks; system on chip; traffic characterization

Indexed keywords

MASSIVELY PARALLEL SYSTEMS; POWER EFFICIENT; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS; SYSTEM ON CHIPS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NEURONS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77954526785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1787275.1787278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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