Real-time simulation of a spiking neural network model of the basal ganglia circuitry using general purpose computing on graphics processing units

Neural Networks

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 950-960

  Igarashi, Jun ^a,b   Shouno, Osamu ^b   Fukai, Tomoki ^a,c   Tsujino, Hiroshi ^b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE JAPAN CO LTD   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; GPGPUs; High performance computing; Real time simulation; Realistic neural networks

Indexed keywords

BASAL GANGLIA; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DATA PARALLEL; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING; GPGPUS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HETEROGENEOUS POPULATIONS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; NETWORK SIZE; PARALLELIZATIONS; POTENTIAL POWER; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; SPIKING MODEL; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE CODING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TRANSIENTS; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER MEMORY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE;

ALGORITHMS; BASAL GANGLIA; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS; MICROCOMPUTERS; NERVE NET; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SYNAPSES;

EID: 80053217966     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: 18792782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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