Virtues, pitfalls, and methodology of neuronal network modeling and simulations on supercomputers

Computational Systems Neurobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 283-315

  Lansner, Anders ^a,b   Diesmann, Markus ^c,d,e  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MODELS; NEURONS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

FUTURE TRENDS; NEURAL SIMULATIONS; NEURONAL NETWORKS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SMALL ANIMAL; STATE OF THE ART;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84956558755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3858-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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