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@INBOOK{Kunkel:137380,
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-2013-03827},
pages = {T26-8B},
year = {2013},
comment = {Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the German Neuroscience
Society},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the
German Neuroscience Society},
abstract = {NEST is a widely used tool to simulate biological spiking
neural networks [1]. The simulator is subject to continuous
development, which is driven by the requirements of the
current neuroscientific questions. At present, a major part
of the software development focuses on the improvement of
the simulator's fundamental data structures in order to
enable brain-scale simulations on supercomputers such as the
Blue Gene system in Jülich and the K computer in Kobe.
Based on our memory-usage model [2], we redesigned the
neuronal and the connection infrastructure of NEST such that
networks of $10^8$ neurons and $10^12$ synapses can be
simulated on the K computer [3]. These improvements reduce
the memory footprint without compromising on the simulator's
general usability and user interface. Here, we describe the
recent technological advances which enable NEST to achieve
high performance and good scaling of network setup and
simulation on the K computer and on the Blue Gene system. We
demonstrate that the usability of these machines for network
simulations has become comparable to running simulations on
a single PC.},
month = {Mar},
date = {2013-03-13},
organization = {10th Meeting of the German
Neuroscience Society, Goettingen
(Germany), 13 Mar 2013 - 16 Mar 2013},
cin = {INM-6 / JSC / IAS-6},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-6-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 /
I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-6-20130828},
pnm = {331 - Signalling Pathways and Mechanisms in the Nervous
System (POF2-331) / 411 - Computational Science and
Mathematical Methods (POF2-411) / Brain-Scale Simulations
$(jinb33_20121101)$ / BTN-Peta - The Next-Generation
Integrated Simulation of Living Matter (BTN-Peta-2008-2012)
/ HASB - Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology
(HGF-SystemsBiology) / 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)BTN-Peta-2008-2012 /
G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SystemsBiology /
G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SMHB-2013-2017 / G:(DE-HGF)B1175.01.12 /
G:(DE-Juel1)Helmholtz-SLNS},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)8},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/137380},
}