Core neuron support?

[GregGlickert]

I was wondering if BMTK has the intention to support the core neuron simulator. It is supposed to speed up neuron simulation quite significantly. I have been working on implementing support for running with core neuron and have the simulation running, but I have not yet got the report modules to record correctly. When running the simulation only zeros get recorded to the reports.

The big difference is that instead of using h.run to run the model you instead you ParallelContext.psolve to run the model. Core neuron is also written using neuron 9.0 which converts mod files to cpp code instead of c code. I have been able to run and record a BMTK model using neuron 9.0 so I don't believe that will be an issue. Most models should be compatible with running with core neuron with only a few mod files needing to be updated to support neuron 9.0.

[tjbanks]

After bouncing ideas back and forth @GregGlickert and I came up with a module to support Core Neuron.

https://github.com/tjbanks/corebmtk

If the implementation is acceptable I can put in a PR for integrating into BMTK.

[xpliu16]

Hi Greg and Tyler,

Thanks for all your work on this! We will take a look. This is not something in our short-term plan, but we are hoping to collaborate with CoreNEURON to provide SONATA support, perhaps next year.

Thanks, Kael and Ping