Object-Oriented NeuroSys: Parallel Programs for Simulating Large Networks of Biologically Accurate Neurons

Conference · Wed May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39924-7_23· OSTI ID:15005007

Pacheco, P; Miller, P; Kim, J; Leese, T; Zabiyaka, Y

Object-oriented NeuroSys (ooNeuroSys) is a collection of programs for simulating very large networks of biologically accurate neurons on distributed memory parallel computers. It includes two principle programs: ooNeuroSys, a parallel program for solving the large systems of ordinary differential equations arising from the interconnected neurons, and Neurondiz, a parallel program for visualizing the results of ooNeuroSys. Both programs are designed to be run on clusters and use the MPI library to obtain parallelism. ooNeuroSys also includes an easy-to-use Python interface. This interface allows neuroscientists to quickly develop and test complex neuron models. Both ooNeuroSys and Neurondiz have a design that allows for both high performance and relative ease of maintenance.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 15005007
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-153186; TRN: US200414%%525
• Resource Relation: Journal Volume: 2840; Conference: 10th European Parallel Virtual Machine/Message Passing Interface Conference, Venice (IT), 09/29/2003--10/02/2003; Other Information: PBD: 7 May 2003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
COMPUTERS
DESIGN
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
MAINTENANCE
NERVE CELLS
PERFORMANCE