http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/install/install.html
New features include:
- More convenient installation
1. Mac users with OS X 10.4 can now download a universal binary installer
that will work on both i686 and PowerPC Macs.
2. All binary installers (UNIX, Linux, OS X, MSWin) now include Python. - More flexible compilation under MSWin
NEURON can be compiled to make use of either the Cygwin
or the non-Cygwin build of Python. - Enhanced interoperability with other tools and simulators
Two of NEURON's GUI tools are now able to import XML:
--the Import3D tool can read morphometric data in MorphML
--the CellBuilder can read model specifications in NeuroML - Increased computational power and efficiency
1. forall {stmt} in the context of a cell object is now fast.
This will be particularly helpful with network simulations.
2. MSWin users will benefit from NEURON's adoption of standard MSWin
dynamic loading. The practical consequence is that mod files are no longer
limited to calling the functions listed in src/mswin/windll/nrnmech.h - Python
See relevant entries under More convenient installation
and More flexible compilation under MSWin - Parallel models
1. The Multisplit method for implementing distributed models of individual neurons
has been extended, so that a single cell model can now be split into enough pieces
to do load balancing on a multicore workstation.
2. Models implemented with the Multisplit method can now be simulated with the
global variable time step method.
Example: the CA3 pyramidal neuron model published by Lazarewicz et al. (2002)
(available from ModelDB via accession number 20007, i.e.
http://senselab.med.yale.edu/modeldb/sh ... odel=20007 )
running on a 4 core x86_64 PC under Linux:
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processes runtime
1 62.7
4 16.6