Distributed configuration of massively-parallel simulation on SpiNNaker neuromorphic hardware

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1099-1105

  Sharp, Thomas ^a   Patterson, Cameron ^a   Furber, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION CHANNELS; DISTRIBUTED CONFIGURATION; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC RE-CONFIGURATION; INTER PROCESSOR COMMUNICATION; MEMORY RESOURCES; MULTIPROCESSOR CHIPS; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NEUROMORPHIC; NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING; ON-BOARD ROUTER; PACKET-SWITCHED; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC MODELS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80054760145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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