Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer
Résumé : International audience
This paper presents a spiking neural network simulator suitablefor biologically plausible large neural networks, named DAMNEDfor “Distributed And Multi-threaded Neural Event-Driven”. The simulatoris designed to run efficiently on a variety of hardware. DAMNEDmakes use of multi-threaded programming and non-blocking communicationsin order to optimize communications and computations overlap.This paper details the even-driven architecture of the simulator. Someoriginal contributions are presented, such as the handling of a distributedvirtual clock and an efficient circular event queue taking into accountspike propagation delays. DAMNED is evaluated on a cluster of computersfor networks from 103 to 105 neurons. Simulation and networkcreation speedups are presented. Finally, scalability is discussed regardingnumber of processors, network size and activity of the simulated NN.
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 11th International Conference, EANN 2009
London, United Kingdom

hal-01437753
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01437753
DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-03969-0_33