Meet the systems

• In person:
  • The next chance to meet both SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS are the hands-on in-person tutorials at the
    EBRAINS users days on 6+7 October 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany. (7 October is the tutorials day)
  • BrainScaleS will also likely be at the tutorials day (9 April 2027) at NICE 2027 at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
• Online:
  • Tutorial via video conference during the "EBRAINS virtual users days" (12-14 October 2026) (free of charge, remote "hands-on" = tutors will be available in zoom breakout rooms during the tutorial)
     
• Recorded tutorials (from the NICE 2022)
  • SpiNNaker hands on tutorial by Andrew Rowley: SpiNNaker tutorial
  • BrainScaleS-2 hands on tutorial:
    • Eric Müller: introduction
    • Christian Pehle: first steps
    • Elias Arnold: Learning with the SuperSpike rule
    • Jakob Kaiser: Structured Neurons

Previous events

(With some links to talk recordings - watch anytime...)

• NICE 2026 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA (BrainScaleS tutorial on the tutorials day on 27 March 2026). 
• EBRAINS tutorials and users day on 12 March 2025 in Heidelberg (Germany) with BrainScaleS and SpiNNaker hands-on tutorials (and many more EBRAINS Research Infrastructure tool tutorials)
• NICE (Neuro Inspired Computational Elements) 2025 on 25-28 March 2025 in Heidelberg (Germany) -- with BrainScaleS and SpiNNaker hands-on tutorial on 28 March 2025
• SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS hands-on tutorials event on Tuesday, 26 November 2024 in Heidelberg (Germany) (free of charge)
• (Very specialised audience: BrainScaleS at the Girls' day for school children on 25 April 2024 in Heidelberg (Germany) in this (sold out) and this session)
• BrainScaleS hands-on tutorial on 26 April 2024 at the NICE 2024 workshop in San Diego (USA).
• BrainScaleS hands-on tutorial (short) on 13 September 2023 in the morning at the HBP concluding event in Jülich (Germany).
• NICE 2023, on-site event 11 - 14 April 2023 at UTSA (Texas, United States of America): https://niceworkshop.org/nice-2023/
  A hands-on BrainScaleS tutorial was offered (twice) at the tutorial day (14 April 2023)
• HBP Summit, 27 - 31 March 2023 as person event in Marseille, France: program of the summit
  • A BrainScaleS hands-on tutorial will be offered during the satellite day (27 March 2023) in Marseille (free of charge)
  • The neuromorphic compute systems SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS had an exhibition booth on 28 and 29 March 2023 at the summit. Visiting the exhibition on 28 March 2023 was free of charge (registration required).
• HBP infrastructure training event on 8 - 10 November 2022 (online, free of charge): Simulate with EBRAINS
• NICE 2022 (28 March - 1 April 2022) - online event. EBRAINS use of SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS-2:
  • SpiNNaker:
    • hands on tutorial: Andrew Rowley: SpiNNaker tutorial
    • Talk: Christian Mayr (TU Dresden): SpiNNaker 2 results: A Platform for Real-Time Bio-Inspired AI and Cognition
  • BrainScaleS-2:
    • hands on tutorial:
      • Eric Müller: introduction
      • Christian Pehle: first steps
      • Elias Arnold: Learning with the SuperSpike rule
      • Jakob Kaiser: Structured Neurons
    • Talks:
      • Johannes Schemmel: BrianScaleS via EBRAINS
      • Tobias Thommes: Demonstrating BrainScaleS 2 Inter-Chip Pulse Communication using Extoll
• At the Summit 2021 BrainScaleS and SpiNNaker have been explained/demonstrated in the NMC breakout session on 15 October 2021. See the agenda with links to the talk recordings. The session also featured two users reports.
• NICE workshop 2021:  with hands-on tutorials for SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS: 16-19 March 2021:
  • Agenda with links to the talk + hands-on tutorial recording
• More previous events are available here on the HBP website.