2022 02 14 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome
   • NEST Spring Hackathon 2022-03-07 to 2022-03-11
   • NEST Conference
2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
3. Project team round
4. In-depth discussion
   • t.b.a.

Mailing list

• https://nest-simulator.org/mailinglist

Project team round

Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.

1. Models / NESTML
   • updates towards JIT compileable NESTML synapses ongoing
2. PyNEST
   • nothing to report
3. NEST Desktop
   • working on EBRAINS installs
     • meeting about NEST-Server deployments tomorrow
4. Kernel
   • SparseNodeArray lookup becomes very slow (factor upto ~10) with large number of devices (#2290
     • mitigation: create all neurons first, then all devices.
     • now possible to create 70e6 connections from sonata in 60s
5. Installation
   • nothing to report, many things to look at
6. Infrastructure
   • nothing to report
7. Documentation
   • require discussion about
     • Restructuring documentation (repo + RTD) #2283
     • Updating installation instructions #2288
     • New webpage theme/layout #2289 reserved time at hackathon.
8. EBRAINS
   • March M21 review coming up (7-11 March).
9. (Feature) Automated Testing
   • nothing to report
10. (Feature) Extension Module System
    • nothing to report

In-depth discussion

• CWL discussion
• Restructuring documentation discussion