Using Beowulf clusters to speed up neural simulations.
Simulation of large neural systems on PCs requires large amounts of memory, and takes a long time. Parallel computers can speed them up. A new form of parallel computer, the Beowulf cluster, is an affordable version. Event-driven simulation and processor farming are two ways of exploiting this parallelism in neural simulations.
Smith
Leslie S.
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Dept of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK