Neurokernel
Neurokernel
An open source platform for emulating the fruit fly brain
From in vivo to in silico
Modeling the fly brain
Developed in Python and CUDA
IPython Notebook demos
What Is It?
The Neurokernel Project aims to build an open software platform for the emulation of the entire brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster on multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
Spotlights!
Fruit Fly Brain Hackathon 2019 will be held at Columbia University on March 20, 2019. Please see the Event page for more details.
The Fruit Fly Brain Observatory, a sister project of Neurokernel, won the phase I competition of the Open Science Prize. Please see the FFBO page for more details.
The Fruit Fly Brain Observatory, a sister project of Neurokernel, is now online!
A short video highlights the architecture of the Neurokernel.
A visual evaluation of the Drosophila melanogaster retina as a parallel information pre-processor. Details of the above video are described in the Neurokernel RFC, "Neurokernel: An Open Source Platform for Emulating the Fruit Fly Brain".
The Neurokernel project was featured by Financial Times
in an article entitled
Neurobiology: what fly brains can teach us.
(Photograph: Hanchuan Peng and HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, USA)
The Neurokernel project was presented in the workshop, open collaboration in computational neuroscience, at computational neuroscience meeting 2015.
To get a better idea about Neurokernel, check out the following presentation given by Aurel A. Lazar at NeuroInformatics 2014.
How Can I Try It?
Interested? Great!
- Clone the source from GitHub.
- Check out the project documentation and Wiki.
- Take a look at the demos.
Got a question or encountered problems?
- Start a discussion on the project forum or mailing list.
- Send in bug reports to the project issue tracker.
Have a new feature to propose and add?
- Propose a new RFC on the project forum or mailing list.
- Send in code via a pull request.
