libneurosim is a general library that provides interfaces and common utility code for neuronal simulators.
Currently it provides the ConnectionGenerator interface.
The ConnectionGenerator API is a standard interface supporting efficient generation of network connectivity during model setup in neuronal network simulators. It is intended as an abstraction isolating both sides of the API: any simulator can use a given connection generator and a given simulator can use any library providing the ConnectionGenerator interface. It was initially developed to support the use of libcsa from NEST.
libpyneurosim is a library provided to support the usage of connection generators written in Python from a neuronal simulator written in C++. That is, it is not an extension library to the Python scripting language. In order to simultaneously support the use of Python 2 and 3, the library is installed with names libpy2neurosim and libpy3neurosim.
To build libpyneurosim (provided for backward compatibility) and libpy2neurosim, which link with Python version 2, add the configure option
--with-python=2
To build libpy3neurosim, which links with Python version 3, configure with
--with-python=3
You can only build for one Python version at a time, but libraries can be installed in parallel.
libneurosim can be linked to MPI if it will be linked to a parallel simulator.
The ConnectionGenerator API is described in Djurfeldt et al. (2014).
Bug reports can be filed as issues on GitHub.
Currently, libneurosim is only supported by the NEST simulator and only provides the Connection Generator Interface.
This should change.
If you are developing algorithms that are usable by different simulators, we would be happy if you'd send us a pull request.