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April 7, 2009, 22.16The Ikaros site now has an RSS feed for the news.
Running on a Supercomputer
September 30, 2008
We are currently testing Ikaros on the computer Milleotto at LUNARC. Milleotto is an IBM blade-centre solution with a total of 1008 processor cores. We are also extending Ikaros with support for MPI in addition to the ad-hoc solution that we are currently using for multiprocessing support.
What is Ikaros?
The Ikaros project started in 2001 and its goal is to develop an open infrastructure for system level modeling of the brain including databases of experimental data, computational models and functional brain data. The system makes heavy use of the emerging standards for Internet based information and will make all information accessible through an open web-based interface. In addition, Ikaros can be used as a control architecture for robots which in the extension will lead to the deveopment of a brain inspired robot architecture.
The main components of the Ikaros systems are:
- A platform independent simulation kernel
- A set of computational brain models
- A set of I/O modules for interfacing with data files and peripheral such as robots or video cameras
- Tools for building systems of interconnected models
- A plug-in architecture that allows new models to be easily added to the system
- A database with data from learning experiments that can be used for validation of the computational models.