Binary Associative Memories as a Benchmark for Spiking Neuromorphic Hardware

Large-scale neuromorphic hardware platforms, specialized computer systems for energy efficient simulation of spiking neural networks, are being developed around the world, for example as part of the European Human Brain Project (HBP). Due to conceptual differences, a universal performance analysis o...

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出版年:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
主要な著者: Andreas Stöckel, Christoph Jenzen, Michael Thies, Ulrich Rückert
フォーマット: 論文
言語:英語
出版事項: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-08-01
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オンライン・アクセス:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00071/full
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要約:Large-scale neuromorphic hardware platforms, specialized computer systems for energy efficient simulation of spiking neural networks, are being developed around the world, for example as part of the European Human Brain Project (HBP). Due to conceptual differences, a universal performance analysis of these systems in terms of runtime, accuracy and energy efficiency is non-trivial, yet indispensable for further hard- and software development. In this paper we describe a scalable benchmark based on a spiking neural network implementation of the binary neural associative memory. We treat neuromorphic hardware and software simulators as black-boxes and execute exactly the same network description across all devices. Experiments on the HBP platforms under varying configurations of the associative memory show that the presented method allows to test the quality of the neuron model implementation, and to explain significant deviations from the expected reference output.
ISSN:1662-5188