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A Spiking Neural P System Simulator Based on CUDA

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Membrane Computing (CMC 2011)

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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.

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  1. Algorithms & Complexity Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, Diliman, 1101, Quezon City, Philippines

    Francis George C. Cabarle & Henry Adorna

  2. Research Group on Natural Computing, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Seville, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    Miguel A. Martínez

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, Portobello Street, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK

    Marian Gheorghe

  2. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, P.O. Box 1-764, 014700, Bucharest, Romania

    Gheorghe Păun

  3. Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

  4. Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Leminkaisenkatu 14, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Arto Salomaa

  5. Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, Laboratoire d’Algorithmique, Complexité et Logique (LACL), Université Paris Est – Créteil Val de Marne, 61, av. Général de Gaulle, 94010, Créteil, France

    Sergey Verlan

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Cabarle, F.G.C., Adorna, H., Martínez, M.A. (2012). A Spiking Neural P System Simulator Based on CUDA. In: Gheorghe, M., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Verlan, S. (eds) Membrane Computing. CMC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28024-5_8

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