Videos

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Videos

Tutorial recordings

At the EBRAINS virtual users days 2026 (October 2026):
- Lucas Eekhof: introduction to the BrainScaleS-2 system and to the hands-on tutorial
  This talk is a short introduction to the BrainScaleS-2 neuromorphic compute system and then shows how to open the example notebooks (non persistent trial out).
  Please see here for how to access the notebooks in a persistently changeable way for your own experimentation.
At Simulate with EBRAINS (November 2022):
- SpiNNaker: Andrew Rowley: Hands-on session on the SpiNNaker neuromorphic compute system
- BrainScaleS:
  - Christian Mauch: BrainScaleS hands on - introduction
  - Johannes Weis: BrainScaleS - training with the Superspike Rule
  - Jakob Kaiser: BrainScaleS -- Plasticity and structured neurons
At NICE 2022 (28 March - 1 April 2022):
- 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
From the NICE 2021 workshop in March 2021:
- SpiNNaker: Andrew Rowley: SpiNNaker tutorial (YouTube video, 17 March 2021)
- BrainScaleS:
  - Sebastian Billaudelle: BrainScaleS-2 Spiking mode (YouTube video, 18 March 2021)
  - Johannes Weis: BrainScaleS-2: Matrix multiplication mode (I) (YouTube video, 18 March 2021)
  - Arne Emmel: BrainScaleS-2: Matrix multiplication mode (II) (YouTube video, 18 March 2021)

Talk recordings

At NICE 2024 (23-26 April 2024):
- Eric Müller: jaxsnn: Event-driven Gradient Estimation for Analog Neuromorphic Hardware
At NICE 2023 (11-14 April 2023):
- Philipp Spilger: hxtorch.snn: Machine-learning-inspired Spiking Neural Network Modeling on BrainScaleS-2
At Simulate with EBRAINS (November 2022):
- SpiNNaker:
  - 5 min short introduction talk Andrew Rowley: "Neuromorphic computing with SpiNNaker: real-time large spiking neural network simulations" video (requires login with free EBRAINS account)
At NICE 2022 (28 March - 1 April 2022):
- Christian Mayr: SpiNNaker 2 results: A Platform for Real-Time Bio-Inspired AI and Cognition
- Johannes Schemmel: BrianScaleS via EBRAINS
- Tobias Thommes: Demonstrating BrainScaleS 2 Inter-Chip Pulse Communication using Extoll
From the HBP / EBRAINS Summit 2021 during the Neuromorphic computing breakout session on 15 October 2021:
- Introduction (YouTube video, talk by Steve Furber) and access (YouTube video, talk by Andrew Davison) to SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS
- SpiNNaker
  - Steve Furber: Introduction talk: SpiNNaker (YouTube video)
  - Andrew Rowley: demo: SpiNNaker in EBRAINS (YouTube video)
- BrainScaleS
  - Jakob Kaiser: demo: BrainScaleS via EBRAINS - from point to structured neurons (YouTube video)
  - Benjamin Cramer: demo: BrainScaleS via EBRAINS - spike based learning demonstration (YouTube video)
  - Friedemann Zenke: User report: using BrainScaleS for surrogate gradient learning (YouTube video)
  - Viola Priesemann: User report: using BrainScaleS to investigate dynamics in neural networks (YouTube video)
From the NICE 2021 workshop in March 2021:
- BrainScaleS:
  - Johannes Schemmel: Exploring the possibilities of analog neuromorphic computing with BrainScaleS (YouTube video, 16 March 2021)
  - Eric Müller: BrainScaleS: Development Methodologies and Operating System (YouTube video, 19 March 2021)
  - Sebastian Schmitt: From clean room to machine room: towards accelerated cortical simulations on the BrainScaleS wafer-scale system (YouTube video, 16 March 2021)
  - Korbinian Schreiber: Closed-loop experiments on the BrainScaleS-2 architecture (YouTube video, 16 March 2021)
From the EBRAINS Infrastructure Training in November 2020:
- BrainScaleS: Johannes Schemmel: Introduction to the Neuromorphic Compute system BrainScaleS (YouTube video) and Eric Müller: introduction to a BrainScaleS tutorial (YouTube video)
- SpiNNaker: Andrew Rowley: the SpiNNaker platform (YouTube video)

More / older videos are linked on the HBP silicon brains videos page.

Other material

SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS related:
- HBP Focus Area - Neuromorphic computing (Steve Furber and Johannes Schemmel, July 2023)
BrainScaleS
- Girl's day 2021 video: The BrainScaleS-2 chip from design to application on YouTube (German, with English subtitles)
SpiNNaker
- First public boot of the 1 Mio core SpiNNaker system: Video on YouTube
- Assembly of the 1 Mio core SpiNNaker system: Video on YouTube