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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kunkel:137379,
      author       = {Kunkel, Susanne and Schmidt, Maximilian and Eppler, Jochen
                      Martin and Igarashi, Jun and Masumoto, Gen and Fukai, Tomoki
                      and Ishii, Shin and Plesser, Hans Ekkehard and Morrison,
                      Abigail and Diesmann, Markus and Helias, Moritz},
      title        = {{S}upercomputers ready for use as discovery machines for
                      neuroscience},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2013-03826},
      year         = {2013},
      abstract     = {NEST is a widely used tool to simulate biological spiking
                      neural networks [1]. The simulator is subject tocontinuous
                      development, which is driven by the requirements of the
                      current neuroscientific questions. Atpresent, a major part
                      of the software development focuses on the improvement of
                      the simulator'sfundamental data structures in order to
                      enable brain-scale simulations on supercomputers such as
                      theBlue Gene system in Jülich and the K computer in Kobe.
                      Based on our memory-usage model [2], weredesigned the
                      neuronal and the connection infrastructure of NEST such that
                      networks of $10^8$ neuronsand $10^12$ synapses can be
                      simulated on the K computer [3]. These improvements reduce
                      the memoryfootprint without compromising on the simulator's
                      general usability and user interface. Here, we describethe
                      recent technological advances which enable NEST to achieve
                      high performance and good scaling ofnetwork setup and
                      simulation on the K computer and on the Blue Gene system. We
                      demonstrate that theusability of these machines for network
                      simulations has become comparable to running simulations on
                      asingle PC.},
      month         = {Mar},
      date          = {2013-03-13},
      organization  = {10th Meeting of the German
                       Neuroscience Society, Goettingen
                       (Germany), 13 Mar 2013 - 18 Mar 2013},
      subtyp        = {After Call},
      cin          = {INM-6 / IAS-6 / JSC},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-6-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-6-20130828 /
                      I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
      pnm          = {331 - Signalling Pathways and Mechanisms in the Nervous
                      System (POF2-331) / 411 - Computational Science and
                      Mathematical Methods (POF2-411) / Brain-Scale Simulations
                      $(jinb33_20121101)$ / HASB - Helmholtz Alliance on Systems
                      Biology (HGF-SystemsBiology) / BTN-Peta - The
                      Next-Generation Integrated Simulation of Living Matter
                      (BTN-Peta-2008-2012) / BRAINSCALES - Brain-inspired
                      multiscale computation in neuromorphic hybrid systems
                      (269921) / SMHB - Supercomputing and Modelling for the Human
                      Brain (HGF-SMHB-2013-2017) / W2Morrison - W2/W3
                      Professorinnen Programm der Helmholtzgemeinschaft
                      (B1175.01.12) / SLNS - SimLab Neuroscience (Helmholtz-SLNS)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-331 / G:(DE-HGF)POF2-411 /
                      $G:(DE-Juel1)jinb33_20121101$ /
                      G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SystemsBiology /
                      G:(DE-Juel1)BTN-Peta-2008-2012 / G:(EU-Grant)269921 /
                      G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SMHB-2013-2017 / G:(DE-HGF)B1175.01.12 /
                      G:(DE-Juel1)Helmholtz-SLNS},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/137379},
}