CyNEST: a maintainable Cython-based interface for the NEST simulator

NEST is a simulator for large-scale networks of spiking point neuron models (Gewaltig and Diesmann, 2007). Originally, simulations were controlled via the Simulation Language Interpreter (SLI), a built-in scripting facility implementing a language derived from PostScript (Adobe Systems, 1999). The i...

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Main Authors: Yury V. Zaytsev, Abigail eMorrison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
Subjects:
HPC
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fninf.2014.00023/full