fnsneuralsimulator/fns-simulator

!https://github.com/fnsneuralsimulator/FNS-scripts_and_tools/blob/master/FNSlogo.png?raw=true "FNS logo" FNS neural simulator

FNS is an event-driven Spiking Neural Network framework, oriented to data-driven brain simulations. FNS com***es spiking/synaptic level description with the event-driven approach, allowing the user to define heterogeneous modules and multi-scale connectivity with delayed connections and plastic synapses, providing fast simulations at the same time. FNS is written in JAVA. It comes with the GPLv3 (please see LICENSE).

• Official website here
• User guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-oJK6dzu6KIggYonajqVq8xA6mUZ3ZZdBMq7zVMyTcA/export?format=pdf (please wait a moment after the click)
• For questions and support: ***

Please cite FNS

When using FNS, please cite us as follows:

Gianluca Susi, Pilar Garcés, Emanuele Paracone, Alessandro Cristini, Mario Salerno, Fernando Maestú, Ernesto Pereda (2020). "FNS: an event-driven spiking neural network simulator based on the LIFL neuron model". Paper under review. Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, UPM-UCM Centre for Biomedical Technology, Technical University of Madrid; University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

Run using Docker

To run FNS with https://docs.docker.com/install/, you can use the public Docker Hub image.

Please navigate the terminal until the FNS folder (where you placed the [SIMULATION_FOLDER] ) and type the following command (*** the prefix sudo for linux privileges):

docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/[SIMULATION_FOLDER]:/usr/local/fns/[SIMULATION_FOLDER] -it -e JAVA_OPTS="" --name fns fnsneuralsimulator/fns-simulator:latest fns [SIMULATION_FOLDER/EXPERIMENT][SWITCHES]

• replace -it with -d if you prefer to detach and run FNS in the background;
• specify the field JAVA_OPTS in case you need to modify the heap size.

where [SIMULATION_FOLDER] is the folder which contains the simulation packages, [EXPERIMENT] is the package which contains the set of configuration files for a single simulation, and .m2 is the directory for your maven repositories.

To make sure you are using the latest version of Docker, type:

docker pull fnsneuralsimulator/fns-simulator:latest

Please refer to the https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-oJK6dzu6KIggYonajqVq8xA6mUZ3ZZdBMq7zVMyTcA/export?format=pdf for additional information.

License & Copyright (Version 3.x)

(c) 2020, Gianluca Susi, Emanuele Paracone, Mario Salerno, Alessandro Cristini, Fernando Maestú.

FNS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

FNS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with FNS. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.