Simulation of large spiking neural networks on distributed architectures, the "DAMNED" simulator

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 43 CCIS, Issue , 2009, Pages 359-370

  Mouraud, Anthony ^a   Puzenat, Didier ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; EVENT DRIVEN; MULTITHREADED; NETWORK CREATION; NETWORK SIZE; NON-BLOCKING; SPIKE PROPAGATION; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SIMULATORS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 78049354610     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03969-0_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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