Changes for page 02. Installing PyNN - Linux
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... ... @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ 49 49 **Slide** listing learning objectives 50 50 ))) 51 51 52 -In this tutorial, I will guide you through setting up PyNN, together with the NEST, NEURON and Brian 52 +In this tutorial, I will guide you through setting up PyNN, together with the NEST, NEURON and Brian2 simulators, in a Linux environment. Note that we have a dedicated version of this tutorial for other environments, such as Mac OS, Windows and EBRAINS Jupyter Lab. 53 53 54 54 (% class="box successmessage" %) 55 55 ((( ... ... @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ 113 113 114 114 Now that we have our project's virtual environment setup, we are now ready to install PyNN and other simulators. In general, it is advisable to install the various simulators (especially NEURON and NEST) prior to installing PyNN, because PyNN will then auto compile NEURON's NMODL fles and NEST's extensions during installation. Alternatively, this would need to be done manually as described on the PyNN website. In this tutorial, we will adopt the easier approach and begin by installing the simulators. For the purposes of this tutorial, we shall demonstrate the installation of Brian2, NEURON and NEST simulators. 115 115 116 -We start here with the installation of Brian 116 +We start here with the installation of Brian2. Brian2 can be installed simply using the pip command. 117 117 118 118 (% class="box infomessage" %) 119 119 ((( ... ... @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ 121 121 \\(% style="color:#000000" %)pip install brian2 122 122 ))) 123 123 124 -This will install Brian 124 +This will install Brian2, along with all its dependencies such as 'cython', 'numpy', etc. We can now go back into our virtual environment's 'site-packages' directory to see how it is now populated with all these packages. 125 125 126 126 (% class="box infomessage" %) 127 127 ((( ... ... @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ 129 129 \\(% style="color:#000000" %)<< show directory contents lib/python3.9/site-packages >> 130 130 ))) 131 131 132 -To confirm that we have properly installed Brian 132 +To confirm that we have properly installed Brian2 on our computer, we can test as follows: 133 133 134 134 (% class="box infomessage" %) 135 135 ((( ... ... @@ -139,10 +139,10 @@ 139 139 \\exit() 140 140 ))) 141 141 142 -If there are no error messages here, and the import is successful, then we have completed installing Brian 142 +If there are no error messages here, and the import is successful, then we have completed installing Brian2. 143 143 144 144 145 -We shall now move on to install the NEST simulator. Unlike Brian 145 +We shall now move on to install the NEST simulator. Unlike Brian2, NEST is not a Python package and therefore its installation is a bit more involved. We shall install the NEST module along with PyNEST, which is a Python interface for controlling the NEST kernel. 146 146 147 147 We first install the NEST module. Version 2.20 is currently supported by PyNN, and it is likely that other versions of NEST might have issues when used with the current version of PyNN. The installation is done by first adding the PPA repository for NEST and updating apt, followed by the installation of NEST itself. 148 148