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