An ultrascalable solution to large-scale neural tissue simulation

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kozloski, James ^a   Wagner, John ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Hodgkin Huxley; Neural tissue; Numerical methods; Parallel computing; Simulation; Ultrascalable; Whole brain

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CELL COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS TISSUE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; SCALE UP; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOUCH;

EID: 84993927125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00015     Document Type: Article

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