 Tom Sharp thomas.sharp@cs.man.ac.uk (work) mail@tomsharp.info (home) I'm a PhD student in the School of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. I'm working on SpiNNaker (a massively parallel computer for neuroscientific simulations) under the supervision of Steve Furber. I also spend part of my time at ARM in Cambridge, where I work in Research and Development as an intern. I'm primarily interested in simulating the cerebral cortex as a system of millions of spiking neurons in order to understand the relationship between the structure and function of this part of the brain. I specialise technically in Python, and real-time event-driven parallel programming in C and ARM assembly. I grew up in Derby, and I now live in Manchester. I'm into walking and cycling in the Peak District, Korean and Japanese films, and romantic-era classical music and hardcore punk. Publications T. Sharp, F. Galluppi, A. Rast., & S. Furber Journal of Neuroscience Methods, in print A hierarchical configuration system for a massively parallel neural hardware platform F. Galluppi, S. Davies, A. D. Rast, T. Sharp, L. A. Plana, & S. Furber Computing Frontiers, 2012 International Conference on Scalable communications for a million-core neural processing architecture C. Patterson, J. Garside, E. Painkras, S. Temple, L. A. Plana, J. Navaridas, T. Sharp, S. Furber Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, in print Concurrent heterogeneous neural model simulation on real-time neuromimetic hardware A. Rast, F. Galluppi, S. Davies, L. A. Plana, C. Patterson, T. Sharp, D. Lester, & S. Furber Neural Networks, 24(9), 961-978 Event-driven simulation of arbitrary spiking neural networks on SpiNNaker T. Sharp, L. A. Plana, F. Galluppi, & S. Furber Neural Information Processing, 2011 International Conference on Distributed configuration of massively-parallel simulation on SpiNNaker neuromorphic hardware T. Sharp, C. Patterson, & S. Furber Neural Networks, 2011 International Joint Conference on An event-driven model for the SpiNNaker virtual synaptic channel A. Rast, F. Galluppi, S. Davies, L. A. Plana, T. Sharp, & S. Furber Neural Networks, 2011 International Joint Conference on |
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