Bug 13869 – Include Genesis in the distribution / portage tree

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description Peter Gantner (a.k.a. nephros) 2003-01-13 16:09:36 UTC]

from the page: 

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GENESIS (short for GEneral NEural SImulation System) is a general purpose simulation platform which was developed to support the simulation of neural systems ranging from complex models of single neurons to simulations of large networks made up of more abstract neuronal components. GENESIS has provided the basis for laboratory courses in neural simulation at both Caltech and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, as well as many other institutions. Most current GENESIS applications involve realistic simulations of biological neural systems. Although the software can also model more abstract networks, other simulators are more suitable for backpropagation and similar connectionist modeling.
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It would be very cool to include genesis _and_ pgenesis (the version for parallel computing) into the portage tree.
It is a popular tool for neuroscience people, and including it would IMO increase the suitability of gentoo linux for use in laboratories and among university students and teachers of neurobiology and related sciences.

I will try to provide a suitable ebuild my self ASAP, but I am not really a developer, and might fail in trying.

[Comment 1 George Shapovalov (RETIRED) 2003-08-06 14:17:40 UTC]

Same here:
the ebuild would really help to move this thing along as I do not have much time now for that. I'll close this with needinfo, please reopen it when you have an ebuild ;). Otherwise may be somebody else will notice it and fill sufficiently motivated to create one..

George

[Comment 2 George Shapovalov (RETIRED) 2003-12-31 10:26:02 UTC]

Hm, nothing new in qute a while, I'll close it as LATER for now..

Geogre