2024 10 07 Open NEST Developer Video Conference - nest/nest-simulator GitHub Wiki

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Agenda

  1. Welcome
  2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
  3. Project team round
  4. In-depth discussion
    • Model example deployments
    • Updates for NEST's Python user interface
    • Representation of hierarchical models in the Python API
    • Python 3.13 updates (will be tested in the coming days)

Mailing list

Project team round

Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.

Go to the Project boards.

In-depth discussion

Model example deployments

  • some astrocyte examples are currently failing due to a mismatch between deployed NEST versions and NEST examples.
  • dependencies require releases. referring to master is very unstable.

Updates for NEST's Python user interface

  • discussions at the Bernstein Conference 2024 have advanced our idea of the next generation PyNEST API
  • some use-cases have been played through using a combination of more object orientation in NEST models and Python standard library features. This looks very promising.

Representation of hierarchical models in the Python API (#3322)

  • @heplesser presented an example how to handle hierarchical model descriptions in pandas.DataFrames and build the network by multi-level indexing into the array
  • Currently some output in Jupyter is hindered by a lookup in NodeCollection.__getattr__()