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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2022

Benchmarking Neuromorphic Hardware and Its Energy Expenditure.

Christoph Ostrau, Christian Klarhorst, Michael Thies, Ulrich Rückert

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Polariton lattices as binarized neuromorphic networks.Light, science & applications · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christoph OstrauTechnical Faculty, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Christian KlarhorstTechnical Faculty, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Michael ThiesTechnical Faculty, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Ulrich RückertTechnical Faculty, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Bielefeld University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose and discuss a platform overarching benchmark suite for neuromorphic hardware. This suite covers benchmarks from low-level characterization to high-level application evaluation using benchmark specific metrics. With this rather broad approach we are able to compare various hardware systems including mixed-signal and fully digital neuromorphic architectures. Selected benchmarks are discussed and results for several target platforms are presented revealing characteristic differences between the various systems. Furthermore, a proposed energy model allows to combine benchmark performance metrics with energy efficiency. This model enables the prediction of the energy expenditure of a network on a target system without actually having access to it. To quantify the efficiency gap between neuromorphics and the biological paragon of the human brain, the energy model is used to estimate the energy required for a full brain simulation. This reveals that current neuromorphic systems are at least four orders of magnitude less efficient. It is argued, that even with a modern fabrication process, two to three orders of magnitude are remaining. Finally, for selected benchmarks the performance and efficiency of the neuromorphic solution is compared to standard approaches.

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benchmarkdeep neural network (DNN)energy modelneuromorphic hardwarespiking neural network (SNN)

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PMID35720731
PMCPMC9201569
OpenAlexW4281646661

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