# Software WG taskforce: simulator selection resource

Meeting 4: Wed 11 Jan, 1500 UTC

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

## Notes

I (Marcel) don't remember: did we ever discuss EBRAIN's Knowledge Graph? https://search.kg.ebrains.eu/?category=Software

## tag tools == our curation

- at minimum
- biological scale (Neural Mass Models, Point Neurons, Detailed Neurons (single, multi comp. models), Molecular Dynamics )
- network scale (single cell, ____, large scale)
- be explicit about scale? e.g large scale is >1M neurons.
- what about multiple scales? eg Arbor does LIF and multicomp. cells.
- or technical: MPI support is large scale.
- interface language (API)
- model extensibility? (fixed set of built-ins, loadable external models? langauge to describe custom models?)
- file formats?
- in
- out
- inclusion crit
- FLOSS
- maintenance development status, Unknown/Unmaintained/Archived, functional/maintained, active dev? For example:
- active dev: regular releases or commits (at least one commit within last month, one release in last year).
- maintained: occasional bug fixes (at least one in past year)
- unknown: unknown ;)

## glossary page

- explain categories
- eg 'large scale' == x M neurons
-