CPU-GPU hybrid platform for efficient spiking neural-network simulation

Abstract

Nowadays, research in computational neuroscience is progressively demanding both detailed biologically-plausible neuron models and, at the same time, the simulation of large-scale neural networks in order to better understand the operation of specific nervous circuits of the central nervous system. To that aim, several neural simulators have been developed during last decades; these simulators have been conceived to either simulate detailed neuron models within small-scale neural networks (NEURON [1] and GENESIS [2]), or to simulate neuron models with low degree of biophysical detail within large-scale neural networks (Brian [3] and NEST [4]). In view of this situation, it would be desirable to go a step further in simulating neural networks and combine fast-and-simple neural models with detailed biologically-plausible neurons within large-scale neural networks…

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CNS*2013
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