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@ARTICLE{Rinke:844224,
author = {Rinke, Sebastian and Butz-Ostendorf, Markus and Hermanns,
Marc-André and Naveau, Mikael and Wolf, Felix},
title = {{A} scalable algorithm for simulating the structural
plasticity of the brain},
journal = {Journal of parallel and distributed computing},
volume = {120},
issn = {0743-7315},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-01665},
pages = {251-266},
year = {2017},
abstract = {The neural network in the brain is not hard-wired. Even in
the mature brain, new connections between neurons are formed
and existing ones are deleted, which is called structural
plasticity. The dynamics of the connectome is key to
understanding how learning, memory, and healing after
lesions such as stroke work. However, with current
experimental techniques even the creation of an exact static
connectivity map, which is required for various brain
simulations, is very difficult. One alternative is to use
network models to simulate the evolution of synapses between
neurons based on their specified activity targets. This is
particularly useful as experimental measurements of the
spiking frequency of neurons are more easily accessible and
reliable than biological connectivity data. The Model of
Structural Plasticity (MSP) by Butz and van Ooyen is an
example of this approach. However, to predict which neurons
connect to each other, the current MSP model computes
probabilities for all pairs of neurons, resulting in a
complexity . To enable large-scale simulations with millions
of neurons and beyond, this quadratic term is prohibitive.
Inspired by hierarchical methods for solving -body problems
in particle physics, we propose a scalable approximation
algorithm for MSP that reduces the complexity to without any
notable impact on the quality of the results. We show that
an MPI-based parallel implementation of our scalable
algorithm can simulate the structural plasticity of up to
neurons—four orders of magnitude more than the naïve
version.},
cin = {JARA-HPC / JSC},
ddc = {004},
cid = {$I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$ / I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
pnm = {511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods
(POF3-511) / SMHB - Supercomputing and Modelling for the
Human Brain (HGF-SMHB-2013-2017) / Scalable Performance
Analysis of Large-Scale Parallel Applications
$(jzam11_20091101)$ / SLNS - SimLab Neuroscience
(Helmholtz-SLNS)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511 / G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SMHB-2013-2017 /
$G:(DE-Juel1)jzam11_20091101$ / G:(DE-Juel1)Helmholtz-SLNS},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000442193100021},
doi = {10.1016/j.jpdc.2017.11.019},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/844224},
}