BrainScaleS

Version 21.1 by kindler on 2021/06/16 08:40

BrainScaleS in EBRAINS

Documentation: the neuromorphic computing guidebook (user level documentation) and the "Neuromorphic Platform Specification" (a technical document)..
For BrainScaleS-2 interactive, please jump directly to the BSS-2 demo descriptions
Getting access (test access is free of charge and does not need a project description)
Getting help:
- if there is an error when running the "Lab", please check the troubleshooting page
- for usage problems, please consult the list of help resources in the guidebook (like chat and user group) (Note: if you already got an nmc-test-USERNAME Collab created, you can find it via the Collab search function, selecting "Admin" as filter)
- or contact the EBRAINS support via email

For some first impressions and tutorial recordings, please see the videos list.

Via Jupyter Notebook
- Batch mode (accessing these Jupyter notebooks requires to log in with an EBRAINS account. For your own experiments you will also need an own collab + test quota. Please see the getting access page for the how-to. The dashboard page shows the system queue status and usage)
  - Example: synfire chain on BrainScaleS-1 wafer scale system
  - Example: single membrane experiments on BrainScaleS-2 single chip system
- Interactive mode: under development for deployment at EBRAINS.
Via direct access: For "serious" use beyond testing and getting aquainted with the systems we can also provide direct ssh access to the system control servers. Please request this type of access via support@ebrains.eu

For BrainScaleS three systems are currently available via the EBRAINS Collaboratory ("Collab"):

The 2nd generation single chip system, accessible via Collab since June 2020 for low-level access and since March 2021 also for access using PyNN.
The first generation wafer-scale system, accessible via Collab since the HBP platform release on 30 March 2016
The standalone single chip system Spikey, the predecessor of the BrainScaleS systems