# Software WG taskforce: simulator selection resource

Meeting 18: **Wed 27 Sep, 1300 UTC**

Next meeting: **Wed 11 Oct, 1300 UTC**

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**Consolidated notes are now here: https://hackmd.io/@mstimberg/HJXqYPMPo**
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## Attendees

- Reema
- Marcel
- Ankur
- Emil

## Notes

- Setting up of another fly instance for dev purposes - DONE (@Ankur)
- Seperating the "core" simulation tools from the associated/add-ons (GPU, GUIs, etc)
- Limiting the home page to the core ones and the following window can help direct to associated tools
- TODO: Categorization
- ..
- TODO: Design Ideas
- ..
- Suggested modifications to the tool metadata -
- Computing power: everything that can run on a supercomputer runs on single machine
- Node(NEURON) and spokes(PyNN, etc) idea to represent the core engine and tools based on it
- Relationship direction between tools - later labelling these relationships for a knowledge graph like data model
- Suggested modifications to the filtering logic -
- for example: someone who is looking for a tool that works with either MATLAB OR Python, the current logic when choosing both will output ONLY the tools which are available in both
- hierarchy of filtering, the "strictness" of the filte, etc
- Discussions around change of tech stack depending of evolving frontend requirements
- **TODOs for next meeting:**
- Identify an ecosystem of tools and try to model the relations between them
- Design ideas for its representation: inspirations from other websites, sketches, etc