A Spiking Neural P system simulator based on CUDA

TitleA Spiking Neural P system simulator based on CUDA
Publication TypeConference Contributions
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsCabarle, F., Adorna H., & Martínez-del-Amor M. A.
Conference Name12th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC12)
Volume TitleProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC12)
Place PublishedFontainebleau, France
Pages77-92
Date Published08/2011
Abstract

In this paper we present a Spiking Neural P system (SNP
system) simulator based on graphics processing units (GPUs). In particular
we implement the simulator using NVIDIA CUDA enabled GPUs.
The massively parallel architecture of current GPUs is very suitable for
the maximally parallel computations of SNP systems. We simulate a
wider variety of SNP systems, after presenting a previous work on SNP
system matrix representation which led to their simulation in GPUs, and
the simulation algorithm included here. Finally, we compare and present
the performance speedups of the CPU-GPU based simulator over the
CPU only simulator.

KeywordsCUDA, GPU Computing, Membrane computing, parallel computing, spiking neural P systems
URLhttp://cmc12.lacl.fr/cmc12proceedings.pdf