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To understand the principles of information processing in the brain, we depend on models with more than 105 neurons and 109 connections [1]. These networks can be described as graphs of threshold elements that exchange point events.
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Eppler, J.M., Plesser, H.E., Morrison, A., Diesmann, M., Gewaltig, MO. (2007). Multithreaded and Distributed Simulation of Large Biological Neuronal Networks. In: Cappello, F., Herault, T., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75416-9_55
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