Communications of the ACM
The computer and the brain
GASNet Specification, v1.1
Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons (Computational Neuroscience Series)
Anatomy of a cortical simulator
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Supercomputing
Brain-scale simulation of the neocortex on the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer
IBM Journal of Research and Development
The Sinkhorn-Knopp Algorithm: Convergence and Applications
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
Scaling communication-intensive applications on BlueGene/P using one-sided communication and overlap
IPDPS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing
The cat is out of the bag: cortical simulations with 109 neurons, 1013 synapses
Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis
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
Scalable communication protocols for dynamic sparse data exchange
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
Efficient simulation of large-scale spiking neural networks using CUDA graphics processors
IJCNN'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international joint conference on Neural Networks
Communications of the ACM
Vectorized algorithms for spiking neural network simulation
Neural Computation
The IBM Blue Gene/Q interconnection network and message unit
Proceedings of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
The IBM Blue Gene/Q Compute Chip
IEEE Micro
Which model to use for cortical spiking neurons?
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
A Digital Neurosynaptic Core Using Event-Driven QDI Circuits
ASYNC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 18th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC)
FPGA simulation engine for customized construction of neural microcircuits
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
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Inspired by the function, power, and volume of the organic brain, we are developing TrueNorth, a novel modular, non-von Neumann, ultra-low power, compact architecture. TrueNorth consists of a scalable network of neurosynaptic cores, with each core containing neurons, dendrites, synapses, and axons. To set sail for TrueNorth, we developed Compass, a multi-threaded, massively parallel functional simulator and a parallel compiler that maps a network of long-distance pathways in the macaque monkey brain to TrueNorth. We demonstrate near-perfect weak scaling on a 16 rack IBM® Blue Gene®/Q (262144 CPUs, 256 TB memory), achieving an unprecedented scale of 256 million neurosynaptic cores containing 65 billion neurons and 16 trillion synapses running only 388X slower than real time with an average spiking rate of 8.1 Hz. By using emerging PGAS communication primitives, we also demonstrate 2X better real-time performance over MPI primitives on a 4 rack Blue Gene/P (16384 CPUs, 16 TB memory).