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NCL to acquire Versal HBM Series board

AMD through its University program has approved a donation of a Versal HBM Series VHK158 Evaluation Kit to the NCL. These new versal boards include High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) specifically targeting memory and compute demanding applications. Within the context and work of the NCL this board is planned to be used mainly in BrainFrame research.

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Amirreza Movahedin winner of AMD Open Hardware competition

Amirreza Movahedin, supervised by Dr. Christos Strydis, is one of the winners of the 2024 AMD open Hardware competition with the project named: Leveraging the Versal ACAP SoC Heterogeneity for Large-Scale Neural-Mass Brain Modeling. The project implemented Virtual Brain (TVB) style brain models on the Versal Adaptive SoC, a system designed for large-scale brain model

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HIPEAC: Technology Transfer Awards 2023

Since 2012, the HiPEAC Technology Transfer Awards have recognized examples of academic innovations examples of leading-edge technology being transferred from academia to industry. This year, technologies transferred ranged from tools that speed up processor development to embedded cybersecurity services. We are proud to announce that Dr Christos Strydis is among the HiPEAC 2023 winners of

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prof. dr. Robert Kooij Visits the NCL

Today, 1st of February, prof. dr. Robert Kooij, head of the department of Quantum and Computer Engineering (QCE) at Delft University of Technology visited the Department of Neuroscience and the NCL for a talk on the topic of Robustness of Complex Networks. Talk Summary: Network Science aims to understand the graph structure of networks and

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ACAP workshop at ASTRON

On Wednesday July 12th 2023 the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) hosted a workshop on an emerging new technology in the RTSD and HPC domains. The AMD Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) or Adaptive SoC (System on Chip) is a relatively new FPGA architecture from AMD. This architecture combines the benefits of FPGAs with

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5 september 2022: Joint keynote in Opening Academic Year event in TU Delft

How can smart technology help to better understand brain diseases such as epilepsy? And how could sensors, implants and ultrasound techniques help predict and prevent epileptic seizures in the future? It is possible when different disciplines work closely together! Medical Delta professor Prof. Dr. Wouter Serdijn along with Dr. Christos Strydis of the Erasmus MC

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Mario Negrello published a book entitled Computational Modeling of the Brain

This volume offers an up-to-date overview of essential concepts and modern approaches to computational modelling, including the use of experimental techniques related to or directly inspired by them. The book introduces, at increasing levels of complexity and with the non-specialist in mind, state-of-the-art topics ranging from single-cell and molecular descriptions to circuits and networks. Four

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