Hello NEST community,
I am at the outset of a large project and I would like to start off with
the right simulator. Perhaps someone here can advise on the viability of
NEST for my particular needs. I will be modeling neuromorphic hardware with
some unique design constraints, such as:
- A complex dendritic arbor
- Dendrite potentials may be coupled with their neighbors
- Several dendrites may feed into other dendrites (a several-layer-deep
dendritic tree)
- The arbor eventually feeds into the soma which has typical LIF
behavior, with a membrane potential determined by the sum of all directly
connected dendrites
- The solution for the leaky-integrator term of dendrites must be drawn
from a precalculated lookup table
The question here is how best to facilitate these dendritic nuances within
NEST? Any counsel on whether it makes sense to pursue modeling such a
system in NEST would be highly appreciated. We would like to eventually
scale to the maximum number of neurons our hardware/clusters and your
simulator can facilitate.
Thank you,
Ryan