Parallel network simulations with NEURON (Migliore et al 2006)

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The NEURON simulation environment has been extended to support parallel network simulations. The performance of three published network models with very different spike patterns exhibits superlinear speedup on Beowulf clusters.
Reference:
1 . Migliore M, Cannia C, Lytton WW, Markram H, Hines ML (2006) Parallel network simulations with NEURON. J Comput Neurosci 21:119-29 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Realistic Network;
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Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Methods;
Implementer(s): Hines, Michael [Michael.Hines at Yale.edu];
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test1.sh
                            
# gnuplot file to produce a figure similar to Figure 2
# in Davison A.P., Feng J. and Brown D. (2003) J. Neurophysiol.

# Note that the figure produced will not match exactly the
# published figure due to differences in the sequence of
# random numbers used to set up the network.

# gnuplot is available from http://www.gnuplot.info

set term postscript portrait enhanced mono solid "Helvetica" 8
set output "ddi_baseline.eps"

set size 0.49,0.5
set multiplot
set size 0.48,0.1
set nokey
set noxtics
set noborder
set noytics
set tmargin 0
set rmargin 0

#  mitral cell
set label 1 '{/Helvetica=14 A}' at screen 0,0.49
set arrow 1 from 1200,-30 to 1000,-30 nohead linewidth 2
set arrow 2 from 1200,-30 to 1200,20 nohead linewidth 2
set label 2 "200 ms" at 1000,-45
set label 3 " 50 mV" at 1200,-10 left
set origin 0.01,0.4
plot [0:1500][-75:50] "ddi_baseline.curvs" using 1:3 with lines linewidth 0.5

# granule cell
set noarrow
set nolabel 2
set nolabel 3
set label 1 '{/Helvetica=14 B}' at screen 0,0.39
set origin 0.01,0.3
plot [0:1500][-75:50] "ddi_baseline.curvs" using 1:4 with lines linewidth 0.5

# IGABAA
set label 1 '{/Helvetica=14 C}' at screen 0,0.29
set arrow 1 from 1200,-1.8 to 1200,-0.8 nohead linewidth 2
set label 2 " 1 nA" at 1200,-1.3 left
set origin 0.01,0.2
plot [0:1500][-3.5:0] "ddi_baseline.curvs" using 1:2 with lines linewidth 0.5

# Raster
set noarrow
set nolabel 2
set noborder
set label 1 '{/Helvetica=14 D}' at screen 0,0.19
set origin 0.01,0.1
plot [0:1500][-1250:1250] "ddi_baseline.gran.ras" using 4:3 with dots, "ddi_baseline.gran.ras" using 4:($3-2500) with dots linetype 1

# Histogram
set border 1 linewidth 0.5
set label 1 '{/Helvetica=14 E}' at screen 0,0.09
set origin 0.01,0.0
set arrow 1 from 1200,80 to 1200,180 nohead linewidth 2
set label 2 "100 spikes per second" at 1180,120 right
plot [0:1500][0:300] "ddi_baseline.gran.hist" using 0:1 with steps linewidth 0.5