FNS is an event-driven Spiking Neural Network framework, oriented to data-driven brain simulations. FNS combines spiking/synaptic level description with the event-driven approach, allowing the user to define heterogeneous modules and multi-scale connectivity with delayed connections and plastic synapses, providing fast simulations at the same time. FNS is written in JAVA. It comes with the GPLv3 (please see LICENSE).
- Official website here
- User guide here (please wait a moment after the click)
- For questions and support: fnsneuralsimulator@gmail.com
When using FNS, please cite us as follows:
Gianluca Susi, Pilar Garcés, Emanuele Paracone, Alessandro Cristini, Mario Salerno, Fernando Maestú, Ernesto Pereda (2021). "FNS allows efficient event-driven spiking neural network simulations based on a neuron model supporting spike latency. Scientific reports, 11(1), 12160. Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, UPM-UCM Centre for Biomedical Technology, Complutense and Technical University of Madrid; University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
To run FNS with Docker, you can use the public Docker Hub image.
Please navigate the terminal until the FNS folder (where you placed the [SIMULATION_FOLDER] ) and type the following command (consider the prefix sudo for linux privileges):
docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/[SIMULATION_FOLDER]:/usr/local/fns/[SIMULATION_FOLDER] -it -e JAVA_OPTS="" --name fns fnsneuralsimulator/fns-simulator:latest fns [SIMULATION_FOLDER/EXPERIMENT][SWITCHES]
- replace
-itwith-dif you prefer to detach and run FNS in the background; - specify the field
JAVA_OPTSin case you need to modify the heap size.
where [SIMULATION_FOLDER] is the folder which contains the simulation packages, [EXPERIMENT] is the package which contains the set of configuration files for a single simulation, and .m2 is the directory for your maven repositories.
To make sure you are using the latest version of Docker, type:
docker pull fnsneuralsimulator/fns-simulator:latest
Please refer to the user guide for additional information.
(c) 2020, Gianluca Susi, Emanuele Paracone, Mario Salerno, Alessandro Cristini, Fernando Maestú.
FNS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
FNS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with FNS. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.