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DTSTART:20121114T203000Z
DTEND:20121114T210000Z
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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Inspired by the function, power, and volume of the organic brain, we are developing TrueNorth, a novel modular, non-von Neumann, ultra-low power, compact architecture. TrueNorth consists of a scalable network of neurosynaptic cores, with each core containing neurons, dendrites, synapses, and axons. To set sail for TrueNorth, we have developed Compass, a multithreaded, massively parallel functional simulator and a parallel compiler that maps a network of long-distance pathways in the Macaque monkey brain to TrueNorth. We demonstrate near-perfect weak scaling on a 16 rack IBM Blue Gene/Q (262144 CPUs, 256 TB memory), achieving an unprecedented scale of 256 million neurosynaptic cores containing 65 billion neurons and 16 trillion synapses running only 388× slower than real-time with an average spiking rate of 8.1 Hz. By using emerging PGAS communication primitives, we also demonstrate 2× better real-time performance over MPI primitives on a 4 rack Blue Gene/P (16384 CPUs, 16 TB memory).
SUMMARY:Compass - A Scalable Simulator for an Architecture for Cognitive Computing
PRIORITY:3
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PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:1.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20121114T203000Z
DTEND:20121114T210000Z
LOCATION:355-EF
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Inspired by the function, power, and volume of the organic brain, we are developing TrueNorth, a novel modular, non-von Neumann, ultra-low power, compact architecture. TrueNorth consists of a scalable network of neurosynaptic cores, with each core containing neurons, dendrites, synapses, and axons. To set sail for TrueNorth, we have developed Compass, a multithreaded, massively parallel functional simulator and a parallel compiler that maps a network of long-distance pathways in the Macaque monkey brain to TrueNorth. We demonstrate near-perfect weak scaling on a 16 rack IBM Blue Gene/Q (262144 CPUs, 256 TB memory), achieving an unprecedented scale of 256 million neurosynaptic cores containing 65 billion neurons and 16 trillion synapses running only 388× slower than real-time with an average spiking rate of 8.1 Hz. By using emerging PGAS communication primitives, we also demonstrate 2× better real-time performance over MPI primitives on a 4 rack Blue Gene/P (16384 CPUs, 16 TB memory).
SUMMARY:Compass - A Scalable Simulator for an Architecture for Cognitive Computing
PRIORITY:3
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