BrainScaleS

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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- Please see the getting access page for the process.
- Interactive mode: use the BrainScaleS-2 single chip system interactively from the EBRAINS collab (please use the "EBRAINS-experimental" kernel for running interactive scripts. See the troubleshooting page for a description how to select the kernel)
  BrainScaleS-2 interactive examples are documented here and the latest version can be downloaded from the Jupyter notebook branch in this github repository or git clone the whole examples part.
- Batch mode. 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
For special purposes access to dedicated setups can also provided via EBRAINS. Please request this type of access via support@ebrains.eu

For BrainScaleS three different system types are currently available via the EBRAINS Collaboratory ("Collab"):

BrainScaleS-2: the 2nd generation system. Currently available are single chip systems, accessible via Collab since June 2020 for low-level access and since March 2021 also for access using PyNN.
For a system introduction / overview and some experiment examples see e.g. "The BrainScaleS-2 accelerated neuromorphic system with hybrid plasticity." (arXiv, published 26 January 2022)