2005/12/05 by Anthony Mouraud, Mouraud, Anthony, Didier Puzenat +3
Computer Science · Engineering · Neuroscience · #Advanced Memory and Neural Computing #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Neural Networks and Applications #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE) #Neural dynamics and brain function
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0512018
openalex publication_date 2005/12/05 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In a Spiking Neural Networks (SNN), spike emissions are sparsely and irregularly distributed both in time and in the network architecture. Since a current feature of SNNs is a low average activity, efficient implementations of SNNs are usually based on an Event-Driven Simulation (EDS). On the other hand, simulations of large scale neural networks can take advantage of distributing the neurons on a set of processors (either workstation cluster or parallel computer). This article presents DAMNED, a large scale SNN simulation framework able to gather the benefits of EDS and parallel computing. Two levels of parallelism are combined: Distributed mapping of the neural topology, at the network level, and local multithreaded allocation of resources for simultaneous processing of events, at the neuron level. Based on the causality of events, a distributed solution is proposed for solving the complex problem of scheduling without synchronization barrier.