August 2, 2013

Members of the NEST initiative and colleagues from Japan and Germany run the largest neuronal network simulation to date using NEST on the Japanese supercomputer K. See press releases [1], [2], and further articles: The Asahi Shimbun (japanese version), QUARTZ, Handelsblatt, FAZ, Wikipedia: K computer (german), TOP500, c’t magazin (german). In response to the press releases, the access statistics of the wikipedia entry on NEST exhibits a prominent peak (screen shot).