Title
Accelerating Brain Simulations On Graphical Processing Units
Abstract
NEural Simulation Tool(NEST) is a large scale spiking neuronal network simulator of the brain. In this work, we present a CUDA(R) implementation of NEST. We were able to gain a speedup of factor 20 for the computational parts of NEST execution using a different data structure than NEST's default. Our partial implementation shows the potential gains and limitations of such possible port. We discuss possible novel approaches to be able to adapt generic spiking neural network simulators such as NEST to run on commodity or high-end GPGPUs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM.2015.79
CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS - DEPENDABLE, AUTONOMIC AND SECURE COMPUTING - PERVASIVE INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Brain simulation, CUDA, accelerators
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Engin Kayraklioglu163.86
tarek elghazawi269784.30
Zeki Bozkus311314.20