Beginner
Introduction to NEST: Simulating a single neuron
Level: beginner Type: video tutorial
This tutorial will guide you through the simulation of one neuron in NEST.
Introduction to PyNEST – Populations of neurons
Level: beginner Type: user documentation
When you have worked through this material, you will know how to:
create populations of neurons with specific parameters; set model parameters before creation; define models with customised parameters; randomise parameters after creation; make random connections between populations; set up devices to start, stop and save data to file and reset simulations
Introduction to PyNEST – Neurons and simple neural networks
Level: beginner Type: user documentation
When you have worked through this material, you will know how to:
start PyNEST, create neurons and stimulation or recording devices, query and set their parameters, connect them to each other or to devices, simulate the network and extract the data from recording devices.
Advanced
MUSIC Tutorial – Introduction to the MUSIC Interface
Level: advanced Type: user documentation
This tutorial showcases how to setup the system, gives a general introduction to NEST and MUSIC, shows the. basics of NEST, and how to add MUSIC connections.
Introduction to PyNEST – Spatially structured networks
Level: advanced Type: user documentation
When you have worked through this material you will be able to:
Create populations of neurons with specific spatial locations, define connectivity profiles between these types of populations, connect populations using profiles, visualize the connectivity
MUSIC tutorial – The pymusic interface
Level: advanced Type: user documentation
The interface is closely modelled on the C++ API; indeed, the steps to use it is almost exactly the same. You can mostly refer to the C++ description for explanation. Below we will only highlight the differences to the C++ API.
MUSIC tutorial – Practical tips
Level: advanced Type: user documentation
Start MUSIC using mpirun, Disable messages, Comma as decimal point, Build Autotool-enable project.
MUSIC tutorial – Connect two NEST simulations using MUSIC
Level: advanced Type: user documentation
We will be implementing the simple network from the introduction to this tutorial.
MUSIC tutorial – MUSIC with SLI
Level: advanced Type: user documentation
We won’t discuss the code extensively as learning SLI is really outside the scope of this tutorial. The code follows the same structure as the other examples, and should be straightforward to follow. But we will give a few pointers for how to connect things with MUSIC.