A multi-GPU algorithm for large-scale neuronal networks

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 556-572

  De Camargo, Raphael Y ^a   Rozante, Luiz ^a   Song, Siang W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CUDA; GPU computing; Hodgkin Huxley model; neural networks; simulation

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COSTS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; NEURONS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COUPLED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; CUDA; GPU COMPUTING; GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNIT (GPUS); HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; HODGKIN-HUXLEY MODELS; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 79952949624     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1665     Document Type: Article

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