Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 119-129Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-7949-5
Keywords
computer simulation; realistic modeling; parallel computation; spiking networks
Funding
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS045612, R01 NS045612, R01 NS011613-31, R01 NS011613, NS11613] Funding Source: Medline
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The NEURON simulation environment has been extended to support parallel network simulations. Each processor integrates the equations for its subnet over an interval equal to the minimum (interprocessor) presynaptic spike generation to postsynaptic spike delivery connection delay. The performance of three published network models with very different spike patterns exhibits superlinear speedup on Beowulf clusters and demonstrates that spike communication overhead is often less than the benefit of an increased fraction of the entire problem fitting into high speed cache. On the EPFL IBM Blue Gene, almost linear speedup was obtained up to 100 processors. Increasing one model from 500 to 40,000 realistic cells exhibited almost linear speedup on 2000 processors, with an integration time of 9.8 seconds and communication time of 1.3 seconds. The potential for speed-ups of several orders of magnitude makes practical the running of large network simulations that could otherwise not be explored.
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