title: Using Beowulf clusters to speed up neural simulations.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
authors.forename: Leslie S.
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Smith