Neurosimulators
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Tue Feb 12 16:38:00 EST 1991
Dear connectionist researchers,
We are compiling a list of neurosimulators for inclusion in a review
paper. The table below presents the 45 simulators that we have been able
to track down so far. We have not been able to find out all the details.
We would, therefore, appreciate it when users or developers could fill
us in on the white spots in the list (or point out any mistakes). Also,
if anyone knows of other simulators that should be included, please,
drop us a note. We would especially welcome any (pointers to) papers
describing neurosimulators. This would enable us to refine and extend
the list of features.
Thanks!
Jaap Murre Steven Kleynenberg
E-mail: MURRE at HLERUL55.Bitnet
Surface mail: Jacob M.J. Murre
Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB Leiden
The Netherlands
To save precious bytes, we have configured the table below in a 132
column format. It may be easier to send the file to a line printer, then
to read it behind the terminal. (On a VAX use: set term /width=132.)
TABLE: NEUROSIMULATORS
Name Manufacturer Language Models Hardware Referenc
e Price ($)
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ADAPTICS Adaptic [AZEMA]
ANNE Oregon Grad. Cent. HLL Intel hypercube [AZEMA]
ANSE TRW TRW [AZEMA]
ANSIM SAIC several IBM [COHEN]
495.00
ANSKIT SAIC several many [BARGA][
BYTE]
ANSPEC SIAC HLL many IBM,MAC,SUN,VAX
995.00
AWARENESS Neural Systems IBM [BYTE]
275.00
AXON HNC HLL many HNC neurocomp. [AZEMA][
BYTE] 1950.00
BOSS [REGGIA]
BRAIN SIMULATOR Abbot,Foster, & Hauser IBM
99.00
BRAINMAKER Cal.Scient.Software bp IBM [BYTE]
195.00
CABLE VAX [MILLER]
CASENET Prolog [DOBBINS
]
COGNITRON Cognitive Software Lisp many MAC,IBM [ZEITV][
BYTE] 600.00
CONE IBM Palo Alto HLL IBM [AZEMA]
CONNECTIONS hopf IBM [BYTE]
87.00
CORTEX [REGGIA]
DESIRE/NEUNET IBM [KORN]
EXPLORENET 3000 HNC HLL many IBM,VAX [BYTE][C
OHEN]
GENESIS Neural Systems IBM [MILLER]
1095.00
GRADSIM Univ. of Penns. C several
GRIFFIN Texas Instruments [AZEMA]
HYPERBRAIN Neurix MAC [BYTE]
995.00
MACBRAIN Neurix many MAC [BYTE]
995.00
MACTIVATION Univ. of Colorado?
METANET Leiden University HLL many IBM,VAX [MURRE]
MIRROR 2 HLL several [REGGIA]
N-NET AIWare C bp IBM,VAX [BYTE]
695.00
N1000 Nestor IBM,SUN [BYTE]
19000.00
N500 Nestor IBM [BYTE]
NEMOSYS IBM RS/6000 [MILLER]
NESTOR DEV. SYSTEM Nestor IBM,MAC
9950.00
NET [REGGIA]
NETSET 2 HNC many IBM,SUN,VAX
19500.00
NETWURKZ Dair Computer IBM [BYTE]
79.95
NEURALWORKS NeuralWare HLL many IBM,MAC,SUN [BYTE][C
OHEN] 1495.00
NEUROCLUSTERS VAX [AZMY]
NEURON [MILLER]
NEUROSHELL Ward Systems Group bp IBM [BYTE]
195.00
NEUROSOFT HNC
NEUROSYM NeuroSym many IBM
179.00
NEURUN Dare Research bp IBM
NN3 GMD Bonn HLL many [LINDEN]
NNSIM [NIJHUIS
]
OWL Olmsted & Watkins many IBM,MAC,SUN,VAX [BYTE]
1495.00
P3 UCSD HLL many Symbolics [ZIPSER]
PABLO [REGGIA]
PLATO/ARISTOTLE NeuralTech [AZEMA]
PLEXI Symbolics Lisp bp,hopf Symbolics
PREENS Nijmegen University HLL many SUN
PYGMALION Esprit C many SUN,VAX [AZEMA]
RCS Rochester University C many SUN [AZEMA]
SFINX UCLA HLL [AZEMA]
Explanation of abbreviations and terms:
Languages: HLL = High Level Language (i.e., network definition language; if
spec
ific programming languages are mentioned
networks can be defined using high level functions in thes
e languages)
Models: several = a fixed number of models is (and will be) supported
many = the systems can be (or will be) extended with new models
bp = backpropagation
hopf = hopfield (if specific models are mentioned these are th
e only ones su
pported)
References: see list below (We welcome any additional references.)
[AZEMA] Azema-Barac, M., M. Heweston, M. Recce, J. Taylor, P. Treleaven,
M. Vellasco (1990). Pygmalion, neural network progamming
environment.
[BARGA] Barga, R.S., R.B. Melton (1990). Framework for distributed artificial
neural system simulation. Proceedings of the IJCNN-90-Washington
DC, 2, 94-97.
[BYTE] Byte (product listing) (1989). BYTE, 14(8), 244-245.
[COHEN] Cohen, H. (1989). How useful are current neural network software
tools? Neural Network Review, 3, 102-113.
[DOBBINS] Dobbins, R.W., R.C. Eberhart (1990). Casenet, computer aided
neural network generation tool. Proceedings of the
IJCNN-90-Washington DC, 2, 122-125.
[KORN] Korn, G.A. (1989). A new environment for interactive neural
network experiments. Neural Networks, 2, 229-237.
[LINDEN] Linden, A., Ch. Tietz (in prep.). Research and development
software environment for modular adaptive systems. Technical
Report NN3-1, GMD Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany.
[MILLER] Miller, J.P. (1990). Computer modelling at the single-neuron level.
Nature, 347, 783-784.
[MURRE] Murre, J.M.J., S.E. Kleynenberg (submitted). Extending the
MetaNet Network Environment: process control and machine independence.
[NIJHUIS] Nijhuis, J., L. Spaanenburg, F. Warkowski (1989). Structure
and application of NNSIM: a general purpose neural network
simulator. Microprocessing and Microprogramming, 27, 189-194.
[REGGIA] Reggia, J.A., C.L. D'Autrechy, G.C. Sutton III, S.M. Goodall
(1988). A general-purpose simulation environment of developing
connectionist models. Simulation, 51, 5-19.
[VIBERT] Vibert, J.F., N. Azmy (1990). Neuro_Clusters: A biological
plausible neural networks simulator tool.
[ZEITV] Zeitvogel, R.K. (1989). Cognitive Software's Cognitron 1.2
(review). Neural Network Review, 3, 11-16.
[ZIPSER] Zipser, D., D.E. Rabin (1986). P3: a parallel network
simulation system. In: D.E. Rumelhart, J.L. McClelland (1986).
Parallel distributed processing. Volume 1. Cambridge MA: MIT
Press.
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