Tutorials & E-Library

This tutorial will showcase how you can access SpiNNaker and use it through the Jupiter Lab Interface. Furthemore, we will be looking into installation of libraries, terminal access, specifying neurons and recording spikes. Finally you will get an introduction to delays, random weights and stdp spike timing dependent plasticity.

Andrew Rowley is showcasing the many sides of SpiNNaker in this Infrastructure Training Tutorial.

Lear how to use the SpiNNaker neuromorphic compute system interactively.

This presentation will introduce you to the SpiNNaker neuromorphic compute system, touching upon its development and what it can do and for what it can be used.

Brief introduction to the SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS neuromorphic compute systems given by Steve Furber on 15 October 2021 during the Neuromorphic computing breakout session at the Human Brain Project Summit 2021.

MUSIC has recently acquired a plain Python interface to go along with the C++ API. If you just want to connect with a simulation rather than adding MUSIC capability to a simulator, this Python interface can be a lot more convenient than C++. You have Numpy, Scipy and other high-level libraries available, and you don’t need to compile anything.

SLI is the built-in scripting language in NEST. It is a stack-based language loosely modelled on PostScript. It is quite cumbersome to work with, is not extensively documented, and has quite a few corner cases, design issues and unintended behaviours. But it is small, already built into NEST and is much more memory efficient than using Python. If your models are very large and memory is tight, or you are using a system where Python isn’t available, then SLI is the way to go.

The C++ interface is the lowest-level interface and what you would use to implement a MUSIC interface in simulators. But it is not a complicated API, so you can easily use it for your own applications that connect to a MUSIC-enabled simulation.

An example of two NEST simulations connected through MUSIC.

The MUSIC interface, a standard by the INCF, allows the transmission of data between applications at runtime. It can be used to couple NEST with other simulators, with applications for stimulus generation and data analysis and visualization and with custom applications that also use the MUSIC interface.

This tutorial will guide you through the simulation of one neuron in NEST.