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A large scale digital simulation of spiking neural networks (SNN) on Fast SystemC Simulator

A large scale digital simulation of spiking neural networks (SNN) on Fast SystemC Simulator
A large scale digital simulation of spiking neural networks (SNN) on Fast SystemC Simulator
Since biological neural systems contain big number of neurons working in parallel, simulation of such dynamic system is a real challenge. The main objective of this paper is to speed up the simulation performance of SystemC designs at the RTL abstraction level using the high degree of parallelism afforded by graphics processors (GPUs) for large scale SNN with proposed structure in pattern classification field. Simulation results show 100 times speedup for the proposed SNN structure on the GPU compared with the CPU version. In addition, CPU memory has problems when trained for more than 120K cells but GPU can simulate up to 40 million neurons
978-0-7695-4682-7
25-30
IEEE Computer Society
Soleimani, Hamid
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Ahmadi, Arash
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Bavandpour, Mohammad
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Amirsoleimani, A. Ali
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Zwolinski, Mark
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Soleimani, Hamid
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Ahmadi, Arash
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Bavandpour, Mohammad
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Amirsoleimani, A. Ali
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Soleimani, Hamid, Ahmadi, Arash, Bavandpour, Mohammad, Amirsoleimani, A. Ali and Zwolinski, Mark (2012) A large scale digital simulation of spiking neural networks (SNN) on Fast SystemC Simulator. In Proceedings of UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation. IEEE Computer Society. pp. 25-30 . (doi:10.1109/UKSim.2012.105).

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Abstract

Since biological neural systems contain big number of neurons working in parallel, simulation of such dynamic system is a real challenge. The main objective of this paper is to speed up the simulation performance of SystemC designs at the RTL abstraction level using the high degree of parallelism afforded by graphics processors (GPUs) for large scale SNN with proposed structure in pattern classification field. Simulation results show 100 times speedup for the proposed SNN structure on the GPU compared with the CPU version. In addition, CPU memory has problems when trained for more than 120K cells but GPU can simulate up to 40 million neurons

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Published date: April 2012
Venue - Dates: UKSim 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2012-03-28 - 2012-03-30
Organisations: EEE

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Local EPrints ID: 339227
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/339227
ISBN: 978-0-7695-4682-7
PURE UUID: 629c3bda-6887-4ad0-8b2d-baaf9f6b42a7
ORCID for Mark Zwolinski: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2230-625X

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Date deposited: 25 May 2012 10:44
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:39

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Author: Hamid Soleimani
Author: Arash Ahmadi
Author: Mohammad Bavandpour
Author: A. Ali Amirsoleimani
Author: Mark Zwolinski ORCID iD

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