26th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2017): Part 2

Abstract

NestMC is a new multicompartment neural network simulator currently under development as a collaboration between the Simulation Lab Neuroscience at the Forschungszentrum Jlich, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. NestMC will enable new scales and classes of morphologically detailed neuronal network simulations on current and future supercomputing architectures. A number of "many-core" architectures such as GPU and Intel Xeon Phi based systems are currently available. To optimally use these emerging architecture new approaches in software development and algorithm design are needed. NestMC is being written specifically with performance for this hardware in mind (Figure The improvements in performance and flexibility in themselves will enable a variety of novel experiments, but the design is not yet finalized, and is driven by the requirements of the neuroscientific