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EDEN: A High-Performance, General-Purpose, NeuroML-Based Neural Simulator.

Sotirios Panagiotou^1,2, Harry Sidiropoulos², Dimitrios Soudris¹

¹School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

|June 7, 2022

Summary

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We introduce EDEN (Extensible Dynamics Engine for Networks), a fast and flexible neural simulator. EDEN enhances computational performance for in silico neuroscience research, directly using NeuroML-v2 models.

Keywords:

High-Performance Computing NeuroML biological neural networks code morphing computational neuroscience interoperability simulation software

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Area of Science:

Computational neuroscience
Neuroscience modeling
Scientific simulation

Background:

Modern neuroscience relies on detailed in silico neural network models.
High computational performance, reproducibility, and transparency are crucial for these models.
Existing simulators may require learning new languages and lack optimal performance.

Purpose of the Study:

To present EDEN (Extensible Dynamics Engine for Networks), a novel neural simulator.
To achieve high model flexibility and computational performance for in silico neuroscience.
To enable direct use of NeuroML-v2 models without additional user effort.

Main Methods:

Developed EDEN, a general-purpose, NeuroML-based neural simulator.
Utilized an innovative model-analysis and code-generation technique.
Validated EDEN using models from NeuroML-DB and Open Source Brain repositories.

Main Results:

EDEN directly runs NeuroML-v2 models, enhancing usability.
EDEN demonstrated functional correctness against the NEURON simulator.
EDEN achieved 1-2 orders of magnitude performance improvement over NEURON on standard hardware.
EDEN is designed for seamless scaling across CPUs and computer clusters.

Conclusions:

EDEN offers a significant advancement in neural simulation performance and flexibility.
The simulator supports the growing demand for detailed and reproducible in silico neuroscience.
EDEN facilitates efficient large-scale neural network simulations.