Simulation platform: cloud-computing meets computational neuroscience

✍ Scribed by Tadashi Yamazaki; Hidetoshi Ikeno; Yoshihiro Okumura; Shunji Satoh; Yoshimi Kamiyama; Yutaka Hirata; Keiichiro Inagaki; Akito Ishihara; Takayuki Kannon; Shiro Usui

• Publisher: BioMed Central
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 369 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1471-2202
• DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-12-s1-p346

✦ Synopsis

Computational models and theoretical tools are essential components in computational neuroscience. A number of models and tools have been developed and registered at various online databases such as ModelDB and J-Node Platforms. Yet, the reuse of such resources still remains quite difficult. For example, to carry out a computer simulation of a model, we have to download the program from the database, extract, read instructions, compile if the program is written in a general programming language such as C, install the appropriate neural simulator if it is written for a simulator such as GEN-ESIS, NEURON, and NEST, and finally we may be