jaberg / nengo_1.4

Create and run detailed neural simulations

The Nengo neural simulator

Nengo is a software package for simulating large-scale neural systems.

Homepage: http://nengo.ca/

Eclipse setup

Basic setup

The project is straightforward to set-up with Eclipse.

1. Add the projects to Eclipse using "File->New->Java project...", and creating the project from the source directory. Add "simulator" first, and then "simulator-ui".
2. To run the program, add a new run configuration ("Run->Run configurations"). The configuration should be a "Java Application", the project "simulator-ui", and the main class "ca.nengo.ui.NengoGraphics".

Increasing Java heap size

If you receive errors about running out of memory while running Nengo, you can increase the heap size that Eclipse allocates for the program. Simply add the command "-Xmx4g" to the "Arguments->VM arguments" box in the run configurations dialog. (The "4g" specifies 4 gigabytes of memory. You can replace this with any integer and either "m" for megabytes or "g" for gigabytes, e.g., "512m" or "2g". The default is "384m".)