Meetings
Some coding highlights of the meeting:
- As of the CodeJam, PyNN now supports NEURON, NEST, PCSIM, and FACETS Stage1 hardware back-ends.
- PyNN, nrnpy, NeuroTools trac+svn are running on the neuralensemble server.
- Preliminary glue code binding Laurent Perrinet's retina model into James Bednar's Topographica was achieved.
- Array types were added to NEST 2.0 providing a clean remedy to the PythonDatum hack to exchange numpy arrays between Python and NEST/SLI.
- pynest 2.0 was added as a standard feature to NEST 2.0 and the build processes unified.
- nrnpy, the Python enabled NEURON: support for getting and setting numpy arrays, progress making HOC objects first class python objects.
Concrete outstanding issues for future CodeJams:
- No time was found to look at distributed simulation + PyNN.
- PyNN back-ends for MVASpike, NeuroML.
- PyNN: direct writes of simulation output hdf5 in a standard way, supporting distributed/multithread PyNN.
- Concrete solutions to package management.