Auryn simulator

Simulator for spiking neural networks with synaptic plasticity

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start [2017/09/29 11:07] – Updates home page title zenkestart [2019/05/04 10:23] – Copyright update zenke
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-====== Welcome to the Auryn website ======+====== Welcome to Auryn ======
  
-Auryn is a simulator for spiking neural networks with plastic synapses. It is free and open source software optimized to simulate spiking neural networks with plasticity. Some examples are Vogels et al., Science, 2011; Zenke et al., Nature Communications, 2015; [[examples:start#from_published_work|and more]]. +Auryn is a simulator for spiking neural networks with plastic synapses. It is free and open source software optimized to simulate spiking neural networks with plasticity. Here are   [[examples:start#from_published_work|some examples]] from published work
  
  
 ===== When to use Auryn ===== ===== When to use Auryn =====
  
-As a spiking neural network simulator Auryn is complementary to other simulators such as [[http://www.nest-initiative.org|NEST]] and [[http://briansimulator.org/|Brian]]. Instead of focusing on large-scale simulations or ease of model development, Auryn's main focus lies on simulation speed to efficiently simulate small or medium sized network models with plasticity over extended periods of simulated time (hours to days). To that end, Auryn is optimized to run efficiently on shared memory machines and small clusters. Auryn is written in C++ and uses MPI for parallel execution. Moreover, it supports Intel's [[manual:xeonphi|Xeon Phi]] architecture.+As a spiking neural network simulator Auryn is complementary to other simulators such as [[http://www.nest-initiative.org|NEST]] and [[http://briansimulator.org/|Brian]]. Instead of focusing on large-scale simulations or ease of model development, Auryn's main focus lies on simulation speed to efficiently simulate small or medium sized network models with plasticity over extended periods of simulated time (hours to days). To that end, Auryn is optimized to run efficiently on shared memory machines and small clusters. Auryn is written in C++ and uses MPI for parallel execution.
  
 ===== Guiding principles ===== ===== Guiding principles =====
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 **Copyright and License**  **Copyright and License** 
-Auryn is written and maintained by [[http://fzenke.net|Friedemann Zenke]] (2014-2016).+Auryn is written and maintained by [[http://fzenke.net|Friedemann Zenke]] (2014-2019).
 Auryn is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify Auryn is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 **Funding** During Auryn's development Friedemann received support of the European Community's Seventh Framework Program under grant agreement no. 237955 (FACETS-ITN), 269921 (BrainScales) and the European Research Council under grant agreement no. 268689 (MultiRules). Moreover, Friedemann was supported by the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation). **Funding** During Auryn's development Friedemann received support of the European Community's Seventh Framework Program under grant agreement no. 237955 (FACETS-ITN), 269921 (BrainScales) and the European Research Council under grant agreement no. 268689 (MultiRules). Moreover, Friedemann was supported by the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation).
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