Title
Arbor — A Morphologically-Detailed Neural Network Simulation Library for Contemporary High-Performance Computing Architectures
Abstract
We introduce Arbor, a performance portable library for simulation of large networks of multi-compartment neurons on HPC systems. Arbor is open source software, developed under the auspices of the HBP. The performance portability is by virtue of back-end specific optimizations for x86 multicore, Intel KNL, and NVIDIA GPUs. When coupled with low memory overheads, these optimizations make Arbor an order of magnitude faster than the most widely-used comparable simulation software. The single-node performance can be scaled out to run very large models at extreme scale with efficient weak scaling.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/EMPDP.2019.8671560
2019 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Total quality management,Silicon,Machine-to-machine communications
x86,Large networks,Simulation software,Supercomputer,Neural Network Simulation,Parallel computing,Software,Artificial intelligence,Software portability,Multi-core processor,Mathematics,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1066-6192
978-1-7281-1644-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nora Abi Akar100.34
Ben Cumming200.34
Vasileios Karakasis313810.24
Anne Küsters400.68
Wouter Klijn500.34
Alexander Peyser652.11
Stuart Yates700.34