FNS neural simulator

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

Please cite FNS

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".

Run using Docker

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 -it with -d if you prefer to detach and run FNS in the background;
• specify the field JAVA_OPTS in 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.

License & Copyright (Version 3.x)

(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/.