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May 2020

Pramod Kumbhar edited this page May 14, 2020 · 22 revisions

Time: 15.5.2020, 16:00 CEST; 10:00 EST Place: Zoom
(please contact one of the NEURON developers for the link if you are interested to join)

Agenda

  • NEURON News / Announcements (2 min)
  • Introduction from "new" members (5 min)
  • New neuron_nightly wheels : what is it? (4 min)
  • A new versioning scheme for NEURON (8 min)
  • Change 6.3 to 37? : What else remains to make NEURON a modern major general neural simulator? (Celsius default)
  • Software Engineering of NEURON codebase (7-10 mins)
    • Practicalities & Goals
    • How / When
    • Which parts to start with : HOC/NMODL/Solver/legacy libraries
  • Technical discussion on issues:
    • Sundials v 5. Very different NVector for threads and mpi. NEURON currently uses homemade implementations for these. See branch cvode3. A subbranch, idainit, is much more robust for IDA initialization but comes at a cost of an extra algebraic variable for each extracellular layer, i.e. vm = vi - ve .
  • Next Release Milestone on GitHub
  • Next Meeting : Call for suggestions / presentations!
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