Resources for “Modeling the Brain with NCS and Brainlab”

NCS (NeoCortical Simulator Project): brain.cse.unr.edu

MPI (Parallel Programming Library): www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi

Subversion (Version Control System): subversion.tigris.org

Beowulf (Linux Cluster Technology): www.beowulf.org

Rocks (Cluster Linux Distribution): rocks.npaci.edu/Rocks

MATLAB (Commercial Scientific Computation Environment): www.mathworks.com

Octave (Open-Source MATLAB-like Programming Environment): www.octave.org

Python (programming language): www.python.org

numarray (numeric extensions for Python): sourceforge.net/projects/numpy

SciPy (scientific extensions for Python): www.scipy.org

matplotlib (MATLAB-like Plotting Extensions for Python): matplotlib.sourceforge.net

PyOpenGL (OpenGL Bindings for Python): pyopengl.sourceforge.net

GENESIS (Neural Simulator): www.genesis-sim.org/GENESIS

NEURON (neural simulator): www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron

BlueGene (IBM Parallel Computation Platform): www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/index.html

Brain Mind Institute (Research Laboratory): bmi.epfl.ch/LNMC.html