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Kunkel, SusanneKTH,Beräkningsvetenskap och beräkningsteknik (CST),Simulation Laboratory Neuroscience, Bernstein Facility for Simulation and Database Technology, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
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The NEST Dry-Run Mode : Efficient Dynamic Analysis of Neuronal Network Simulation Code
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2017-06-28
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Frontiers Media SA,2017
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:kth-212349
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https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-212349URI
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2017.00040DOI
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QC 20170821
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NEST is a simulator for spiking neuronal networks that commits to a general purpose approach: It allows for high flexibility in the design of network models, and its applications range from small-scale simulations on laptops to brain-scale simulations on supercomputers. Hence, developers need to test their code for various use cases and ensure that changes to code do not impair scalability. However, running a full set of benchmarks on a supercomputer takes up precious compute-time resources and can entail long queuing times. Here, we present the NEST dry-run mode, which enables comprehensive dynamic code analysis without requiring access to high-performance computing facilities. A dry-run simulation is carried out by a single process, which performs all simulation steps except communication as if it was part of a parallel environment with many processes. We show that measurements of memory usage and runtime of neuronal network simulations closely match the corresponding dry-run data. Furthermore, we demonstrate the successful application of the dry-run mode in the areas of profiling and performance modeling.
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Schenck, WolframSimulation Laboratory Neuroscience, Bernstein Facility for Simulation and Database Technology, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Faculty of Engineering and Mathematics, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany.
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KTHBeräkningsvetenskap och beräkningsteknik (CST)
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Ingår i:Frontiers in Neuroinformatics: Frontiers Media SA111662-5196
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