New in NIF - Neuroscience Gateway

New in NIF this week we have upgraded our view of ModelDB. Now little green or red dots appear next to each model.

What does it mean if there is a green dot?
- Green dots indicate that the model runs "as-is" on the NSG cluster (tresteles usually).
Red dot?
- Does not mean that the model is necessarily broken, but it does not run "as-is" on the cluster. You may have to extract code, or update it.

For all green dots, output files are available on our servers for download, so don't be afraid to click on the dot, or the column entitled "output files".

The good folks at the Neuroscience Gateway (NSG) portal are ready to run your models on a supercomputer without asking for your first-born child, or your justification of why you want to run your model. All you need to do is create an account, download or create your model code and go. For models that have been deposited in the ModelDB public repository, we had several summer students attempting running code. Some ran fine, other code needed some attention before creating output files. Our students did not have the expertise to fix the models so they just gave them a red dot. If you would like to change the red dot to green for a model that you know and love, we will be happy to talk to you info-at-neuinfo.org and figure out why the model does not run. You can also update code at ModelDB.

To run any Neuron or Genesis code on the NSG, just pick up the model code and get an account on http://www.nsgportal.org/ and submit.

Happy Modeling!