2022 07 04 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
3. Project team round
4. In-depth discussion
   • t.b.a.

Mailing list

• https://nest-simulator.org/mailinglist

Project team round

Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.

1. Models / NESTML
   • tutorials for OCNS
   • work as usual
2. NEST GPU

   • breaking news: new paper published

     🎉 Fast Simulation of a Multi-Area Spiking Network Model of Macaque Cortex on an MPI-GPU Cluster, G. Tidda et al, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

3. PyNEST
   • work as usual
4. NEST Desktop
   • tutorals for OCNS
   • work as usual
5. Kernel
   • work as usual, different flows of parallelization between differerent kernel versions
6. Installation
   • #2390: new handling of python interface in Cython / Python 3.11 (release Oct 3 2022)
7. Infrastructure
   • nothing to report
8. Documentation
   • need reviewers
   • working on models: #2416
9. EBRAINS
   • nothing to report

In-depth discussion

review of model documentation

• engage community
• need users perspective