Efficiently passing messages in distributed spiking neural network simulation

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Thibeault, Corey M ^a,b   Minkovich, Kirill ^a   O'Brien, Michael J ^a,c   Harris, Frederick C ^b   Srinivasa, Narayan ^a  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTING SYSTEM; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE CLUSTERS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE SIMULATION; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MESSAGE-PASSING; MVAPICH; NEURAL MODELLING; PERFORMANCE; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK SIMULATIONS;

MESSAGE PASSING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; NERVE CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; SPIKE MESSAGE PASSING; SYNAPSE;

EID: 85172039557     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00077     Document Type: Article

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