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Padraig Gleeson, 30 Apr 2014 14:57

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Bluehive and OSB interactions
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Discussion of the options for running models from OSB (and any other models expressed in LEMS/NeuroML2) on the Bluehive hardware being developed in Cambridge.
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Some of these points may be applicable to other FPGA based simulator systems.
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### Overview of Bluehive system
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Information on the current status of the Bluehive system can be found in presentations by [Steve Marsh](http://www.opensourcebrain.org/attachments/download/70/SteveMarsh_HiveMind_Overview_13_5_13.pdf) and [Paul Fox](http://www.opensourcebrain.org/attachments/download/74/Thousands-to-millions_PaulFox.ppt) at the [2013 OSB kickoff meeting](http://www.opensourcebrain.org/projects/osb/wiki/Meetings)
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### Potential OSB models to test on Bluehive hardware
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Some of the potential models on OSB which could be tried out on Bluehive include:
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-   project:brunel2000
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-   project:destexhe\_jcns\_2009
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     (Note these are both PyNN based networks, which could potentiall be scaled up by changing the population size parameters)
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-   project:grancelllayer
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     (This is a neuroConstruct based project containing a network of single compartment conductance based neurons. The [Large 3D network](http://www.opensourcebrain.org/embedded/grancelllayer/Large3DNetwork.html) simulation configuration could be used for testing on Bluehive, but would require more testing of the ChannelML ~~\> NeuroML2~~\> LEMS -\> Other formats pathway)
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Note that a Google Summer of Code project for the INCF will start soon when a student will be specifically looking at converting large scale cortical models to NeuroML/PyNN and putting them on OSB: http://www.incf.org/gsoc/2013, http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/vitorchaud/14001.
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These networks will be exactly the type needed for testing with Bluehive and comparing to other simulators.
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### Libraries which can be used for code generation, testing, etc.
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[PyLEMS](https://github.com/LEMS/pylems)
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Extended [org.neuroml.export package](https://github.com/NeuroML/org.neuroml.export/tree/master/src/main/java/org/neuroml/export) which exports [VFGEN](http://www.warrenweckesser.net/vfgen/index.html) format, to generate C/C++…
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### Other simulator systems based on FPGA
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Please add comments if you know anything about the state of these systems (but be nice, it’s public!).
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[A Large-Scale Spiking Neural Network Accelerator for FPGA Systems Systems](http://www.async.org.uk/nerh2012/nerh2012_submission_2.pdf)
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Kit Cheung, Simon R. Schultz, Wayne Luk, Imperial College London
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[A Biologically Plausible Real-time Spiking Neuron Simulation Environment Based on a Multiple-FPGA Platform](http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2082176&ftid=1071641&dwn=1&CFID=223379110&CFTOKEN=73391392)
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Shufan Yang, TM McGinnity, University of Ulster
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[An FPGA-based approach to high-speed simulation of conductance-based neuron models](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1385%2FNI%3A2%3A4%3A417)
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E. L. Graas, E. A. Brown, Robert H. Lee, Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology