The cat is out of the bag: cortical simulations with 109 neurons, 1013 synapses

In the quest for cognitive computing, we have built a massively parallel cortical simulator, C2, that incorporates a number of innovations in computation, memory, and communication. Using C2 on LLNL’s Dawn Blue Gene/P supercomputer with 147, 456 CPUs and 144 TB of main memory, we report two cortical simulations – at unprecedented scale – that effectively saturate the entire memory capacity and refresh it at least every simulated second. The first

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: SC
• Authors: Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, Steven K. Esser, Horst D. Simon, Dharmendra S. Modha
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Blue Gene/P Supercomputer, Entire Memory Capacity, Parallel Cortical Simulator, SC 2009