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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2019

SpiNNTools: The Execution Engine for the SpiNNaker Platform.

Andrew G D Rowley, Christian Brenninkmeijer, Simon Davidson, Donal Fellows, Andrew Gait, David R Lester, Luis A Plana, Oliver Rhodes, Alan B Stokes, Steve B Furber

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Towards a Bio-Inspired Real-Time Neuromorphic Cerebellum.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021
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  9. Real-time cortical simulation on neuromorphic hardware.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Andrew G D RowleyAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Christian BrenninkmeijerAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Simon DavidsonAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Donal FellowsAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Andrew GaitAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
David R LesterAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Luis A PlanaAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Oliver RhodesAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Alan B StokesAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Steve B FurberAdvanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SpiNNaker is a massively parallel distributed architecture primarily focused on real time simulation of spiking neural networks. The largest realization of the architecture consists of one million general purpose processors, making it the largest neuromorphic computing platform in the world at the present time. Utilizing these processors efficiently requires expert knowledge of the architecture to generate executable code and to harness the potential of the unique inter-processor communications infra-structure that lies at the heart of the SpiNNaker architecture. This work introduces a software suite called

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frameworkmiddlewaremultiprocessingneuromorphicparallelsoftwareSpiNNaker machine

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PMID30971873
PMCPMC6444189

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