2017 06 12 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome
   • nice weather in Juelich, rain expected in Norway this afternoon
2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
   • all questions answered; nice work everyone
3. Review of open Github Pull Request
   • PR #724
     • fixes names related issues that occurs in threaded context
     • how to resolve this for NEST modules? topology has to fix similar issues, see https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/blob/master/topology/topology_names.h solution use separate namespace and create separate names table for modules
   • PR #747
     • favoured the name "BernoulliSynapse"
   • PR #668
     • HEP will have a look again and decide whether it should be merged
4. Review of open Github Issues
   • Issue #740 (step_current_generator)
     • problem when step times are defined with more accuracy than simulation resolution: need to force times on grid
     • same problem as in #671, could be fixed with the same methods
   • Issue #746
     • boundary condition issues (prototypes_ longer than pristine_prototypes_), not caught due to [] access instead of .at()
     • possible to use compiler flag to enable bounds check on vectors even if accessed via square brackets; Dimitri will look into it