Publication

This page introduces key papers related to Neulite and bionetlite.

Key Papers

1 Kuriyama, R.*, Akira, K.*, Green, L., Herrera, B., Dai, K., Iura, M., Gouaillardet, G., Terasawa, A., Kobayashi, T., Igarashi, Jun., Arkhipov, A., & Yamazaki, T. (2025). Microscopic-Level Mouse Whole Cortex Simulation Composed of 9 Million Biophysical Neurons and 26 Billion Synapses on the Supercomputer Fugaku. In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC ‘25), November 16–21, 2025, St Louis, MO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages.

DOI: 10.1145/3712285.3759819

* Co-first authors

Paper Abstract

This paper reports on research that achieved microscopic-level simulation of whole mouse cortex using the supercomputer Fugaku.

Key Achievements

  • Whole mouse cortex model containing 9 million biophysical neurons

  • Complex connection structure with 26 billion synapses

  • Efficient parallel execution on Fugaku

  • Detailed biophysical simulation using Perisomatic model

Technical Contributions

  • bionetlite: Network construction framework extending BMTK

  • Neulite: Lightweight and high-performance biophysical neuron simulator

  • Optimization technology: SIMD computation leveraging SVE (Scalable Vector Extensions)