Software WG taskforce: simulator selection resource

Meeting 4: Wed 11 Jan, 1500 UTC

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

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