NEST Hackathon 26.06 28.06 2019

Where: NMBU, Ås, Norway

When: 26.06 - 28.06 2019

Participants

• @AliceGem

• @clinssen

• @terhorstd

• @gtrensch

• @hakonsbm

• @heplesser

• @janhahne

• @jarsi

• @jessica-mitchell

• @jougs

• @jhnnsnk

• @jstapmanns

• @babsey

• @steffengraber

• @stinebuu

• @suku248

Releases

• NEST 2.18.0 RELEASE (@terhorstd + all)

Resolved Pull Requests and Issues

Reviewers: All

• #1177 - Increase maximum line length in source code formatting style from 80 to 120

• #1204 - Add conda-forge installation documentation for Linux and MacOSX

• #1214 - Convert topology user manual to ReStructuredText

• #1218 - Fix nest_vars in case of undefined PYTHONPATH

• #1219 - Add tests for libnestutil/streamers.h

• #1227 - Update links to model directory in docs

• #1228 - Cleanup for the K computer specific CMake file for v2.18

• #1229 - (Issue) Cython dependency not mentioned in documentation

• #1230 - Fix up dependencies in Ubuntu install instructions

• #1233 - Fix multiple definition of rho build complain observed on AArch64 with FCC

• #1234 - Documentation update for #1177

(see specific PRs for details)

Further developments

• Work on NESTIO - NEST 3 integration (@jougs, @hakonsbm)

• Urbanczik plasticity - code cleanup, convert units (@janhahne, @jstapmanns)

• Create Dockerfile for NEST, upload to dockerhub, configure Travis (@steffengraber)

• NEST 3 LOCK PTRs (@stinebuu, @heplesser, @hakonsbm, @gtrensch)

• Performance optimzation and benchmarking of spike deliviery (@jarsi, @suku248)

• Create NESTML pypi (@clinssen, @jougs)

• Add integration test to NESTML for NEST simulator (@clinssen)

• NESTML bug fixes (@clinssen, @terhorstd)

• Test NEST simulator in Singularity container using ppa (@babsey, @steffengraber)

• Look into NESTML and the nest-simulator conda-forge package issues (@steffengraber, @jessica-mitchell)

• New conda packages for 2.18.0 (@steffengraber)

Discussions

• NEST desktop and (@babsey)

  • source code (@terhorstd)

  • VIOLA (@jhnnsnk)

  • NESTInstrumentationApp (@hakonsbm)

  • tutorials (@jessica-mitchell)

• Benchmarking (@heplesser, @terhorstd, @stinebuu, @jarsi, @suku248, @jhnnsnk, @gtrensch, Tom (vc))

• modelsmodule init refactor PR #1069 (@clinssen + all)

• NESTML multicompartment (Alice, @clinssen)

• Integrating NESTML with NEST Server (Desktop) (@babsey, @clinssen, @jougs)

• Send python script to NEST server instead of JSON (similar to ipython notebook) (@babsey, @terhorstd, @jougs)

What's next

• merge NEST 3 into MASTER (Aug)

• documentation focused hackathon (Oct)

• finalize NEST 3 hackathons (Dec and Feb)