Cargando…
PCSIM: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Neural Circuits Fully Integrated with Python
The Parallel Circuit SIMulator (PCSIM) is a software package for simulation of neural circuits. It is primarily designed for distributed simulation of large scale networks of spiking point neurons. Although its computational core is written in C++, PCSIM's primary interface is implemented in th...
Autores principales: | , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Research Foundation
2009
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19543450 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/neuro.11.011.2009 |
_version_ | 1782168416676741120 |
---|---|
author | Pecevski, Dejan Natschläger, Thomas Schuch, Klaus |
author_facet | Pecevski, Dejan Natschläger, Thomas Schuch, Klaus |
author_sort | Pecevski, Dejan |
collection | PubMed |
description | The Parallel Circuit SIMulator (PCSIM) is a software package for simulation of neural circuits. It is primarily designed for distributed simulation of large scale networks of spiking point neurons. Although its computational core is written in C++, PCSIM's primary interface is implemented in the Python programming language, which is a powerful programming environment and allows the user to easily integrate the neural circuit simulator with data analysis and visualization tools to manage the full neural modeling life cycle. The main focus of this paper is to describe PCSIM's full integration into Python and the benefits thereof. In particular we will investigate how the automatically generated bidirectional interface and PCSIM's object-oriented modular framework enable the user to adopt a hybrid modeling approach: using and extending PCSIM's functionality either employing pure Python or C++ and thus combining the advantages of both worlds. Furthermore, we describe several supplementary PCSIM packages written in pure Python and tailored towards setting up and analyzing neural simulations. |
format | Text |
id | pubmed-2698777 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2009 |
publisher | Frontiers Research Foundation |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-26987772009-06-18 PCSIM: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Neural Circuits Fully Integrated with Python Pecevski, Dejan Natschläger, Thomas Schuch, Klaus Front Neuroinformatics Neuroscience The Parallel Circuit SIMulator (PCSIM) is a software package for simulation of neural circuits. It is primarily designed for distributed simulation of large scale networks of spiking point neurons. Although its computational core is written in C++, PCSIM's primary interface is implemented in the Python programming language, which is a powerful programming environment and allows the user to easily integrate the neural circuit simulator with data analysis and visualization tools to manage the full neural modeling life cycle. The main focus of this paper is to describe PCSIM's full integration into Python and the benefits thereof. In particular we will investigate how the automatically generated bidirectional interface and PCSIM's object-oriented modular framework enable the user to adopt a hybrid modeling approach: using and extending PCSIM's functionality either employing pure Python or C++ and thus combining the advantages of both worlds. Furthermore, we describe several supplementary PCSIM packages written in pure Python and tailored towards setting up and analyzing neural simulations. Frontiers Research Foundation 2009-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2698777/ /pubmed/19543450 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/neuro.11.011.2009 Text en Copyright © 2009 Pecevski, Natschläger and Schuch. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and the Frontiers Research Foundation, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Pecevski, Dejan Natschläger, Thomas Schuch, Klaus PCSIM: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Neural Circuits Fully Integrated with Python |
title | PCSIM: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Neural Circuits Fully Integrated with Python |
title_full | PCSIM: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Neural Circuits Fully Integrated with Python |
title_fullStr | PCSIM: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Neural Circuits Fully Integrated with Python |
title_full_unstemmed | PCSIM: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Neural Circuits Fully Integrated with Python |
title_short | PCSIM: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Neural Circuits Fully Integrated with Python |
title_sort | pcsim: a parallel simulation environment for neural circuits fully integrated with python |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19543450 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/neuro.11.011.2009 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT pecevskidejan pcsimaparallelsimulationenvironmentforneuralcircuitsfullyintegratedwithpython AT natschlagerthomas pcsimaparallelsimulationenvironmentforneuralcircuitsfullyintegratedwithpython AT schuchklaus pcsimaparallelsimulationenvironmentforneuralcircuitsfullyintegratedwithpython |