SpiNNaker is a neuromorphic hardware platform, especially designed for the simulation of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). To this end, the platform features massively parallel computation and an efficient communication infrastructure based on the transmission of small packets. The effectiveness of SpiNNaker in the parallel execution of the PageRank (PR) algorithm has been tested by the realization of a custom SNN implementation. In this work, we propose a PageRank implementation fully realized with the MPI programming paradigm ported to the SpiNNaker platform. We compare the scalability of the proposed program with the equivalent SNN implementation, and we leverage the characteristics of the PageRank algorithm to benchmark our implementation of MPI on SpiNNaker when faced with massive communication requirements. Experimental results show that the algorithm exhibits favorable scaling for a mid-sized execution context, while highlighting that the performance of MPI-PageRank on SpiNNaker is bounded by memory size and speed limitations on the current version of the hardware.

PageRank Implemented with the MPI Paradigm Running on a Many-Core Neuromorphic Platform / Forno, Evelina; Salvato, Alessandro; Macii, Enrico; Urgese, Gianvito. - In: JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 2079-9268. - 11:2(2021). [10.3390/jlpea11020025]

PageRank Implemented with the MPI Paradigm Running on a Many-Core Neuromorphic Platform

Forno,Evelina;Salvato,Alessandro;Macii,Enrico;Urgese,Gianvito
2021

Abstract

SpiNNaker is a neuromorphic hardware platform, especially designed for the simulation of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). To this end, the platform features massively parallel computation and an efficient communication infrastructure based on the transmission of small packets. The effectiveness of SpiNNaker in the parallel execution of the PageRank (PR) algorithm has been tested by the realization of a custom SNN implementation. In this work, we propose a PageRank implementation fully realized with the MPI programming paradigm ported to the SpiNNaker platform. We compare the scalability of the proposed program with the equivalent SNN implementation, and we leverage the characteristics of the PageRank algorithm to benchmark our implementation of MPI on SpiNNaker when faced with massive communication requirements. Experimental results show that the algorithm exhibits favorable scaling for a mid-sized execution context, while highlighting that the performance of MPI-PageRank on SpiNNaker is bounded by memory size and speed limitations on the current version of the hardware.
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