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Three Tools for the Real-Time Simulation of Embodied Spiking Neural Networks Using GPUs

Three Tools for the Real-Time Simulation of Embodied Spiking Neural Networks Using GPUs This paper presents a toolbox of solutions that enable the user to construct biologically-inspired spiking neural networks with tens of thousands of neurons and millions of connections that can be simulated in real time, visualized in 3D and connected to robots and other devices. NeMo is a high performance simulator that works with a variety of neural and oscillator models and performs parallel simulations on either GPUs or multi-core processors. SpikeStream is a visualization and analysis environment that works with NeMo and can construct networks, store them in a database and visualize their activity in 3D. The iSpike library provides biologically-inspired conversion between real data and spike representations to support work with robots, such as the iCub. Each of the tools described in this paper can be used independently with other software, and they also work well together. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Neuroinformatics Springer Journals

Three Tools for the Real-Time Simulation of Embodied Spiking Neural Networks Using GPUs

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2012 by Springer Science+Business Media New York
Subject
Biomedicine; Neurosciences; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Neurology
ISSN
1539-2791
eISSN
1559-0089
DOI
10.1007/s12021-012-9174-x
pmid
23274962
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Abstract

This paper presents a toolbox of solutions that enable the user to construct biologically-inspired spiking neural networks with tens of thousands of neurons and millions of connections that can be simulated in real time, visualized in 3D and connected to robots and other devices. NeMo is a high performance simulator that works with a variety of neural and oscillator models and performs parallel simulations on either GPUs or multi-core processors. SpikeStream is a visualization and analysis environment that works with NeMo and can construct networks, store them in a database and visualize their activity in 3D. The iSpike library provides biologically-inspired conversion between real data and spike representations to support work with robots, such as the iCub. Each of the tools described in this paper can be used independently with other software, and they also work well together.

Journal

NeuroinformaticsSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 30, 2012

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