Analytical assessment of the suitability of multicast communications for the SpiNNaker neuromimetic system

Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-8

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Massively parallel processing; Multicast networks; Neuromimetic architecture; VLSI systems

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING; MULTICAST COMMUNICATION; MULTICAST NETWORK; MULTICAST ROUTERS; MULTICASTS; OPERATION CONDITIONS; SPIKING NEURAL NETS; TARGET APPLICATION; UNICAST; VLSI SYSTEM;

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; MULTICASTING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84870467769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCC.2012.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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