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Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Anatomy of a cortical simulator
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Brain-scale simulation of the neocortex on the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Overview of the IBM Blue Gene/P project
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Overview of the Blue Gene/L system architecture
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Think Global, Act Local; Projectome Estimation with BlueMatter
MICCAI '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention: Part I
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Communications of the ACM
Neuromorphic modeling abstractions and simulation of large-scale cortical networks
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
A hierachical configuration system for a massively parallel neural hardware platform
Proceedings of the 9th conference on Computing Frontiers
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Neural Computation
Scalable communications for a million-core neural processing architecture
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Compass: a scalable simulator for an architecture for cognitive computing
SC '12 Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
A large-scale spiking neural network accelerator for FPGA systems
ICANN'12 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning - Volume Part I
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A survey and taxonomy of on-chip monitoring of multicore systems-on-chip
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Nanoscale electronic synapses using phase change devices
ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC) - Special issue on memory technologies
FPGA simulation engine for customized construction of neural microcircuits
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
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In the quest for cognitive computing, we have built a massively parallel cortical simulator, C2, that incorporates a number of innovations in computation, memory, and communication. Using C2 on LLNL's Dawn Blue Gene/P supercomputer with 147, 456 CPUs and 144 TB of main memory, we report two cortical simulations -- at unprecedented scale -- that effectively saturate the entire memory capacity and refresh it at least every simulated second. The first simulation consists of 1.6 billion neurons and 8.87 trillion synapses with experimentally-measured gray matter thalamocortical connectivity. The second simulation has 900 million neurons and 9 trillion synapses with probabilistic connectivity. We demonstrate nearly perfect weak scaling and attractive strong scaling. The simulations, which incorporate phenomenological spiking neurons, individual learning synapses, axonal delays, and dynamic synaptic channels, exceed the scale of the cat cortex, marking the dawn of a new era in the scale of cortical simulations.