BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation

Abstract-- Computational modellers are becoming increasingly interested in building large, eclectic, biological models. These may integrate nervous system components at various levels of description, other biological components (e.g. muscles), non-biological components (e.g. statistical discriminators or control software) and, in embodied modelling, even hardware components, all potentially with different authors. There is a need for middleware to facilitate these integrated systems. BRAHMS, a Modular Execution Framework, fills that need by defining a supervisor-process interface and an (extensible) set of process-process interfaces; authors can write to these interfaces, and processes will integrate as required. Additional benefits include reuse (never code the same model twice), cross-user readability, system-level parallelisation on multi-core or multi-node environments, cross-language integration, data logging, performance analysis, and run-stop-examine-continue execution. BRAHMS e...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: AEI
• Authors: Benjamin Mitchinson, Tak-Shing Chan, Jonathan M. Chambers, Martin J. Pearson, Mark D. Humphries, Charles W. Fox, Kevin N. Gurney, Tony J. Prescott
• Keywords: AEI 2010, Computational Modellers, Modular Execution Framework, Non-biological Components