CNS*2006.
Neuro-IT workshop on Interoperability of Simulators
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 19-20 2006
For quite some time interoperability of neural simulators has been considered an important goal of the community. But is this more than a buzz word? Is it possible/easy to transfer models from one simulator program to another? And how should this be solved? By making simulators interact with each other, which may be useful anyway to simulate multi-scale models by combining different specialized simulators, or by defining models in a simulator-independent way? This workshop brings together several outstanding simulator developers to present and discuss their views on the following 3 questions:
- one big simulator versus specialized simulators
- interoperability of specialized simulators
- simulator independent model specification
Most speakers will touch on several issues but they have been grouped by which topic they will emphasize.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Wednesday July 19:
Morning Session:
09.00 - 09.05: E. De Schutter (University of Antwerp, Belgium):
Introduction
1. One big simulator versus or together with specialized simulators?
09.05 - 09.30: Joel R. Stiles (University Pittsburgh, USA):
"Spatial Realism and Multiscale Issues for Physiological
Simulations"
Discussion
09.40 - 10.05: Upinder S. Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India):
"MOOSE/GENESIS 3: A general simulator with specialized, optimized
solvers"
Discussion
10.15 - 10.40: Stefan WIls (University of Antwerp, BE):
"Bridging the gap between STEPS and electrophysiology"
Discussion
10.50 - 11.10: Coffee break
11.10 - 11.35: Marc-Oliver Gewaltig (Honda Research Institute, Germany):
"Simulator Interoperability from the perspective of NEST?"
Discussion
2. Interoperability of specialized simulators
11.45 - 12.10: Fred Howell (University of Edinburgh, UK):
"Pattern machines and spikes"
Discussion
12.30 - 14.00: Lunch break
Afternoon Session:
14.00 - 14.25: Eilif Muller (University Heidelberg, Germany):
"A better interpreter for computational neuroscience"
Discussion
14.35 - 15.00: Hugo Cornelis (University Texas San Antonio, USA):
"Accessibility of Neuronal Models using the Neurospaces Studio"
Discussion
3. Simulator independent model specification
15.10 - 15.35: Padraig Gleeson (University College London, UK):
"NeuroML for simulator independent model specification"
Discussion
15.45 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 16.25: Mike Hines (Yale University, USA):
"NEURON CellBuilder descriptions of inhomogenous channel density"
Discussion
16.35 - 17.00: Robert Cannon (University of Edinburgh, UK):
"Case studies in component specialization and model specification"
Discussion
17.30: Closure
Thursday July 20:
Morning Session:
09.00 - 10.00: Short recapitulation of main points + response to reactions by speakers
(5 min each)
10.00 - 10.50: Open discussion
10.50 - 11.10: Coffe Break
11.10 -12.00: Open discussion and conclusions
Supported by the European Commission (FP5-IST NeuroIT.net)
More info about CNS*2006 and the organizing committee
Information and administration :
Christiane Linster CL243@cornell.edu
or cns@cnsorg.org