NEOSIM - Neural Open Simulation
The NEOSIM project aims to develop efficient, portable software tools for large scale systems modelling of the nervous system, integrating computational models ranging from the sub-cellular to the whole brain level. Modelling environments are essential tools for integrating diverse sources of information about the nervous system into system level models. Because of the scale of the models needed at this level of integration, advanced parallel computing is required. The NEOSIM framework is based on parallel discrete event simulation techniques, whereby simulation components are distributed across a parallel machine or network and communicate using timestamped events.
Detailed simulation of components is performed by plug in modules, so modellers will be able to incorporate detailed models developed in other simulation environments, including NEURON and GENESIS.
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