Submitted by idimkovic on Thu, 04/09/2015 - 23:35
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X comes with 12 GB of video memory, making it ideal GPU for neural network simulations, including spiking neural networks.Upcoming version of DigiCortex engine (v1.14) can simulate more than million multi-compartment neurons on a single TITAN X GPU!
Submitted by idimkovic on Tue, 11/11/2014 - 22:32
SpikeFun 1.10 release comes with performance monitoring code update adding support for Intel Haswell EP/EX (Xeon E5/E7 v3) CPUs as well as Intel Crystalwell CPUs.
Submitted by idimkovic on Mon, 09/23/2013 - 00:41
Since Intel Xeon E5 2600 v2 has been out publically, it is time to show some results of DigiCortex engine on the new dual 12-core setup (24 cores / 48 threads total) based on Intel Xeon 2697 v2 CPU. Result: we clock nearly perfect 1.45x speed-up! Click on the article to read more!
Submitted by idimkovic on Sun, 07/28/2013 - 18:18
DigiCortex v0.99a brings performance-monitoring support and optimizations for upcoming Intel Ivy Bridge EP / EX ("IvyTown") Xeon E5 2600/4600 v2 and E7 2800/4800/8800 v2 CPUs including support for memory-bandwidth and power-consumption hardware performance monitoring registers. In addition, it contains performance-fixes for systems with number of CPUs not equal to power of 2. Click on the article to read more!
Submitted by idimkovic on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 21:53
DigiCortex v0.98 implements support for Intel(R) Haswell microarchitecture including optimizations using Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2), Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) and Gather instructions. Furthermore, performance monitoring in SpikeBenchmark has also been extended so that Haswell CPUs are now supported. Click on the article to read more!
