2017 05 29 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome

2. Review of NEST User Mailing List

   • Anouncement of paper publication:

     Ippen T, Eppler JM, Plesser HE and Diesmann M Constructing Neuronal Network Models in Massively Parallel Environments. Front. Neuroinform. 11:30 (2017) doi: 10.3389/fninf.2017.00030, http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fninf.2017.00030

   • threading question will be converted to proper issue (see also below)

   • all others handled on the list already

3. NEST Desktop (Sebastian Spreizer, Bernstein Center Freiburg)

   • presentation of the graphical interface for students without programming experience
   • local python based server runs the simulation and java-based GUI connects to the server
   • https://github.com/babsey/nest-desktop
   • nice tool for teaching, reports can be saved, networks can be stored/shared
   • front-end is built with https://d3js.org/

4. NEST in threaded applications (see also #725)

   • long discussed possible causes and approaches
   • at the moment, NEST is based on the assumption that it is the only source of threads in the process.
     • good control of the processes is important for memory locality, thread pinning, etc...
   • similar projects available with multiprocessing links between a NEST process and e.g. a front-end process (insert links here)
   • handling threads is not easily solvable

5. Review of open Github Pull Request

   • Some comments on #732

6. Review of open Github Issues