ePoster · Computational Neuroscience
Rapid prototyping in spiking neural network modeling with NESTML and NEST Desktop
Sebastian Spreizer, Charl Linssen, Pooja Babu, Abigail Morrison, Markus Diesmann, Benjamin Weyers · Bernstein Conference 2024
NEST [1] is a well-established open source simulator providing researchers in computational neuroscience with the ability to perform high-performance simulations of spiking neuronal networks. However, as the simulation kernel is written in C++ for performance reasons, this makes it challenging for researchers without a programming background to customize and extend the built-in neuron and synapse models. In order to satisfy both the need for high-performance simulation codes and a good user experience in terms of easy-to-use modeling of neurons and synapses, NESTML [2] was created as a domain-