New GENESIS release

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The May 30, 2003 final version 2.2.1 release of the General Neural
Simulation System (GENESIS) is now available for download from the GENESIS
website, http://www.genesis-sim.org/GENESIS/, or by annonymous ftp from
ftp://genesis-sim.org/pub/genesis/.

GENESIS is a general purpose simulation platform that was developed to
support the simulation of neural systems ranging from complex models of
single neurons to simulations of large networks. Most current GENESIS
applications involve realistic simulations of biological neural systems.
Although the software can also model more abstract networks, other
simulators are more suitable for backpropagation and similar connectionist
modeling. GENESIS runs under most varieties of UNIX, including Linux.

We recommend that all GENESIS users upgrade to the new version, and suggest
that anyone interested in biologically realistic modeling take a look at
it.

This new 2.2.1 release has a new version of the kinetics library and the
Kinetikit GUI (kkit version 9) for modeling biochemical kinetics reactions.
It fixes a number of bugs in version 2.2, and also has a large number of
changes to fix compilation problems with newer OS versions, compiler
versions, and libraries. Two new debugging commands, gctrace and gftrace,
have been added. Although the documentation has not been changed since
version 2.2, you can find a description of these commands and other changes
from version 2.2 in the genesis distribution file genesis/src/CHANGES.

The complete distribution is contained in the compressed tar file
genesis.tar.Z (a link to genesis2.2.1.tar.Z). If you have the gnu utility
gunzip, you my download the smaller, more highly compressed version,
genesis.tar.gz (a link to genesis2.2.1.tar.gz). The README file on
the GENESIS site gives full installation instructions.

The GENESIS site also contains a new release of Parallel GENESIS (PGENESIS
2.2.1), designed for networks of workstations (NOW), symmetric
multiprocessors (SMP) and massively parallel processors (MPP). This
release, which replaces PGENESIS 2.2, incorporates some bug fixes to
previous versions. It can be run on any platform which supports GENESIS
2.2.1 and the PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) software. When used with
GENESIS version 2.2 or later, it allows GENESIS to be run on networks of
workstations (NOW), symmetric multiprocessors (SMP) and massively parallel
processors (MPP). PGENESIS is described further in Readme.pgenesis.

Inquiries concerning GENESIS should be addressed to genesis@genesis-sim.org.
Inquiries concerning GENESIS Users Group (BABEL) memberships should be sent
to babel@genesis-sim.org.

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Prof. David Beeman, GENESIS Users Group
email: genesis@genesis-sim.org - dbeeman@dogstar.colorado.edu
GENESIS WWW site: http://www.genesis-sim.org/GENESIS/
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