68 neurosimulators
MURRE@rulfsw.LeidenUniv.nl
MURRE at rulfsw.LeidenUniv.nl
Thu Mar 12 16:09:00 EST 1992
We have now updated and extended our table with neurosimulators to include
68 neurosimulators. We present the table below. (Sorry, for the many bytes
taken by this format. We expect that this format is easier to handle by
everyone.)
Work on the review paper, unfortunately, has been interrupted by several
events. We plan to have something available within the next few months. In
this paper we will ponder on the possibility of deriving some standards for
a number of the 'most popular' neural networks. If we could agree on such
a set, it would be much easier to directly exchange models and simulation
scripts (at least, for this limited set of neural network paradigms). Has
anyone ever worked on this?
If anyone wants to point out errors, fill in some blanks, or prosose to add
(or remove) a system from the list, please, follow the format of the table.
Additional comments (i.e., extra references to be included in the general
review paper, background information, or reasons why a certain entry is wrong)
may then follow the changed lines.
Example:
The following line in the table ought to be changed to:
Name Manufacturer Hardware
METANET Leiden University IBM, MAC
Within 6 months from now, a MAC version will be available for this system.
Adherence to this format will make it much easier for us to deal with the
comments.
Jacob M.J. Murre Steven E. Kleyenmberg
Jacob M.J. Murre
Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
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N.B. At April 1 1992, I will start working at the following address:
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Table 1.a. Neurosimulators.
Name Manufacturer Hardware
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ADAPTICS Adaptic
ANNE Oregon Graduate Center Intel iPSC hypercube
ANSE TRW TWR neurocom. mark 3,4,5
ANSIM SAIC IBM
ANSKIT SAIC
ANSPEC SIAC IBM,MAC,SUN,VAX,SIGMA/DELTA
AWARENESS Neural Systems IBM
AXON HNC Inc. HNC Neurocom. ANZA,ANZA+
BOSS
BPS George Mason Univ., Fairfax IBM,VAX,SUN
BRAIN SIMULATOR Abbot,Foster & Hauserman IBM
BRAINMAKER California Scientific Software IBM
CABLE Duke University VAX
CASCOR
CASENET
COGNITRON Cognitive Software MAC,IBM
CONE IBM Palo Alto IBM
CONNECTIONS IBM
COPS Case Western Reserve Univ.
CORTEX
DESIRE/NEUNET IBM
EXPLORENET 3000 HNC Inc. IBM,VAX
GENESIS Neural Systems IBM
GENESIS/XODUS VAX,SUN
GRADSIM VAX
GRIFFIN Texas Instruments/Cambridge TI NETSIM neurocomputer
HYPERBRAIN Neurix Inc. MAC
MACBRAIN Neurix Inc. MAC
MACTIVATION University of Colorado MAC
METANET Leiden University IBM,(VAX)
MIRRORS/II University of Maryland VAX,SUN
N-NET AIWare Inc. IBM,VAX
N1000 Nestor Inc IBM,SUN
N500 Nestor Inc. IBM
NCS North Carolina State Univ. (portable)
NEMOSYS IBM RS/6000
NESTOR Nestor Inc. IBM,MAC
NET
NETSET 2 HNC Inc. IBM,SUN,VAX
NETWURKZ Dair Computer Systems IBM
NEURALSHELL Ohio State University SUN
NEURALWORKS NeuralWare Inc. IBM,MAC,SUN,NEXT,INMOS
NEURDS Digtal Equipment Corporation VAX
NEUROCLUSTERS VAX
NEURON Duke University
NEUROSHELL Ward Systems Group IBM
NEUROSOFT HNC Inc.
NEUROSYM NeuroSym Corp. IBM
NEURUN Dare research IBM
NN3/SESAME GMD, Sankt Augustin, BDR SUN
NNSIM
OPT
OWL Olmsted & Watkins IBM,MAC,SUN,VAX
P3 U.C.S.D. Symbolics
PABLO
PDP McClelland & Rumelhart IBM,MAC
PLANET University of Colorado SUN,APOLLO,ALLIANT
PLATO/ARISTOTLE NeuralTech
PLEXI Symbolics Inc/Lucid Inc Symbolics,SUN
POPLOG-NEURAL University of Sussex SUN,VAX
PREENS Nijmegen University SUN
PYGMALION Esprit SUN,VAX
RCS Rochester University SUN,MAC
SAVY TEXT RETR. SYS. Excalibur Technologies IBM,VAX
SFINX U.C.L.A.
SLONN Univ. of Southern California
SNNS Stuttgart University SUN,DEC,HP,IBM
SUNNET SUN
Table 1.b. Neurosimulators.
Name Language Models Price $
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ADAPTICS
ANNE HLL/ILL/NDL
ANSE
ANSIM many 495
ANSKIT
ANSPEC HLL many 995
AWARENESS 275
AXON HLL 1950
BOSS
BPS C bp 100
BRAIN SIMULATOR 99
BRAINMAKER Macro bp 195
CABLE HLL
CASCOR
CASENET Prolog
COGNITRON HLL (Lisp) many 600
CONE HLL
CONNECTIONS hopf 87
COPS
CORTEX
DESIRE/NEUNET matrix
EXPLORENET 3000
GENESIS 1095
GENESIS/XODUS C
GRADSIM C
GRIFFIN
HYPERBRAIN 995
MACBRAIN many 995
MACTIVATION
METANET HLL (C) many 1000
MIRRORS/II HLL (Lisp) several
N-NET C bp 695
N1000 19000
N500
NCS HLL (C++) many
NEMOSYS
NESTOR 9950
NET
NETSET 2 many 19500
NETWURKZ 80
NEURALSHELL C many
NEURALWORKS C 1495
NEURDS C
NEUROCLUSTERS
NEURON HLL
NEUROSHELL bp 195
NEUROSOFT
NEUROSYM many 179
NEURUN bp
NN3/SESAME many
NNSIM
OPT C
OWL many 1495
P3 HLL many
PABLO
PDP several 44
PLANET HLL many
PLATO/ARISTOTLE
PLEXI Lisp,C,Pascal many
POPLOG-NEURAL HLL,POP-11 bp,cl
PREENS HLL many
PYGMALION HLL (parallel C) many
RCS C
SAVY TEXT RETR. SYS. C
SFINX HLL
SLONN
SNNS HLL many
SUNNET
Table 1.c. Neurosimulators.
Name Comments
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ADAPTICS training software for neural-networks
ANNE neural-network development environment
ANSE
ANSIM
ANSKIT development tool for large artificial neural-networks
ANSPEC
AWARENESS introductory NN program
AXON neural-network description language
BOSS
BPS
BRAIN SIMULATOR
BRAINMAKER neural-networks simulation software
CABLE
CASCOR cascade-correlation simulator
CASENET graphical case-tool for generating executable code
COGNITRON neural-network,prototyping,delivery system
CONE research environment
CONNECTIONS
COPS combinatorial optimization problems
CORTEX neural-network graphics tool
DESIRE/NEUNET interactive neural-networks experiment environment
EXPLORENET 3000 stand-alone neural-network software
GENESIS neural-network development system
GENESIS/XODUS general neural simulator, X-wnd. output, simulation utilities
GRADSIM
GRIFFIN research environment for TI NETSIM neurocomputer
HYPERBRAIN
MACBRAIN
MACTIVATION introductory neural-network simulator
METANET general neurosimulator, CAD for NN architectures
MIRRORS/II neurosimulator for parallel environments
N-NET integrated neural-network development system
N1000
N500
NCS
NEMOSYS simulation software
NESTOR
NET
NETSET 2
NETWURKZ training tool for IBM pc
NEURALSHELL
NEURALWORKS neural-networks development system
NEURDS
NEUROCLUSTERS simulation tool for biological neural networks
NEURON
NEUROSHELL
NEUROSOFT
NEUROSYM
NEURUN interactive neural-network environment
NN3/SESAME neurosimulator for modular neural networks
NNSIM mixed neural/digital image processing system
OPT all-purpose simulator
OWL
P3 early PDP development system
PABLO
PDP introductory simulator, complements 'the PDP volumes'
PLANET
PLATO/ARISTOTLE knowledge processor for expert systems
PLEXI flexible neurosimulator with graphical interaction
POPLOG-NEURAL
PREENS workbench for NN constr., visualisation,man., and simul.
PYGMALION general, parallel neurosimulator under X-Windows
RCS research environment, graphical neurosimulator
SAVY TEXT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
SFINX research environment
SLONN
SNNS
SUNNET
Table 1.d. Neurosimulators.
Name Abbreviated reference
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ADAPTICS
ANNE
ANSE
ANSIM [Cohen, H., Neural Network Review, 3, 102-133, 1989]
ANSKIT [Barga R.S, Proc. IJCNN-90-Washington DC, 2, 94-97, 1990]
ANSPEC
AWARENESS [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
AXON [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
BOSS [Reggia J.A., Simulation, 51, 5-19, 1988]
BPS
BRAIN SIMULATOR
BRAINMAKER [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
CABLE [Miller J.P., Nature, 347, 783-784, 1990]
CASCOR
CASENET [Dobbins R.W, Proc. IJCNN-90-Wash. DC, 2, 122-125, 1990]
COGNITRON [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
CONE
CONNECTIONS [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
COPS [Takefuji Y., Science, 245, 1221-1223, 1990]
CORTEX [Reggia J.A., Simulation, 51, 5-19, 1988]
DESIRE/NEUNET [Korn G.A, Neural Networks, 2, 229-237, 1989]
EXPLORENET 3000 [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
GENESIS [Miller J.P., Nature, 347, 783-784, 1990]
GENESIS/XODUS
GRADSIM
GRIFFIN
HYPERBRAIN [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
MACBRAIN [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
MACTIVATION
METANET [Murre J.M.J., Proc. ICANN-91-FIN, 1, 545-550, 1991]
MIRRORS/II [Reggia, J.A., Simulation, 51, 5-19, 1988]
N-NET [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
N1000 [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
N500 [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
NCS
NEMOSYS [Miller J.P., Nature, 347, 783-784, 1990]
NESTOR
NET [Reggia J.A., Simulation, 51, 5-19, 1988]
NETSET 2
NETWURKZ [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
NEURALSHELL
NEURALWORKS [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
NEURDS
NEUROCLUSTERS
NEURON [Miller J.P., Nature, 347, 783-784, 1990]
NEUROSHELL [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
NEUROSOFT
NEUROSYM
NEURUN
NN3/SESAME
NNSIM [Nijhuis J.L., Microproc. & Microprogr., 27,189-94, 1989]
OPT
OWL [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
P3 [In: 'PDP Volume 1', MIT Press, 488-501, 1986]
PABLO
PDP [Rumelhart et al. 'Explorations in PDP', MIT Press, 1988]
PLANET
PLATO/ARISTOTLE
PLEXI
POPLOG-NEURAL
PREENS
PYGMALION
RCS
SAVY TEXT RETR. SYS. [BYTE, 14(8), 244-245, 1989]
SFINX [Mesrobian E., IEEE Int. Conf. on Man, Sys. & Cyb., 1990]
SLONN [Simulation, 55, 69-93, 1990]
SNNS
SUNNET
Explanation of abbreviations and terms:
Manufacturer: company, institute, or researchers associated with the
system
Languages: HLL = High Level Language (i.e., network definition language;
if specific programming languages are mentioned, networks
can be defined using high-level functions in these
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 (if specific models are mentioned,
these are the only ones supported by the system)
hopf = hopfield
cl = competitive learning
Price: indication of price range in US dollars (if no price is
this can either mean that the price is unknown to us, that the
system is not available (yet) for general distribution, or that
the system is available at a nominal charge)
Comment: attempt to indicate the primary function of the system
Reference: a single reference that contains pointers to the manufacturers,
who may be contacted for further information
(a more complete list of references, also containing review
articles, etc., will appear in a general review paper by us -
this paper is still in preparation and not yet available for
prelimary distribution [sorry])
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