The NEURON simulation environment has been extended to support parallel network simulations. The performance of three published network models with very different spike patterns exhibits superlinear speedup on Beowulf clusters.
Model Type: Realistic Network
Model Concept(s): Methods
Simulation Environment: NEURON
Implementer(s): Hines, Michael [Michael.Hines at Yale.edu]
References:
Migliore M, Cannia C, Lytton WW, Markram H, Hines ML. (2006). Parallel network simulations with NEURON. Journal of computational neuroscience. 21 [PubMed]