SpiNNaker 'Network Tester' Documentation ======================================== 'Network Tester' is a library designed to enable experimenters to quickly and easily describe and run experiments on SpiNNaker_'s interconnection network. In particular, network tester is designed to make recreating traffic loads similar to typical neural software straight-forward. Such network loads feature a fixed set of cores with a fixed set of multicast flows of SpiNNaker packets between them. The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of the kinds of experiments which can be performed with 'Network Tester': * Determining how a network copes with different rates and patterns of packet generation. For example to determining the maximum speed at which a particular neural simulation may run on SpiNNaker without dropping packets. * Determining the effectiveness of place and route algorithms by finding 'hot-spots' in the network. * Characterising the behaviour of the network in the presence of locally and globally synchronised bursting traffic. .. _SpiNNaker: http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/ Getting started --------------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 3 getting_started API Reference ------------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 3 api upgrading_from_0_1_x Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search`