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+Acknowledgments
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+
+The authors gratefully acknowledge the received support and funding from
+- the European Union 6th and 7th Framework Program under grant agreement no.
+  15879 (FACETS),
+- the European Union 7th Framework Program under grant agreement no. 269921
+  (BrainScaleS),
+- the European Union 7th Framework Programme ([FP7/2007-2013]) under grant
+  agreement no. 604102 (Human Brain Project, HBP),
+- the computing time granted by the JARA-HPC Vergabegremium and provided on the
+  JARA-HPC Partition part of the supercomputers JUQUEEN and JURECA at
+  Forschungszentrum Jülich (VSR computation time grant JINB33),
+- the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA),
+- the Next-Generation Supercomputer Project of MEXT, Japan,
+- the eScience program of the Research Council of Norway under grant 178892/V30
+  (eNeuro),
+- the Helmholtz Association through the Helmholtz Portfolio Theme
+  "Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain",
+- the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments,
+- the Priority Program (SPP 2041 "Computational Connectomics") of the Deutsche
+  Forschungsgemeinschaft [S.J. van Albada: AL 2041/1-1],
+- the Helmholtz young investigator's group VH-NG-1028 "Theory of multi-scale
+  neuronal networks",
+- and compute time provided by UNINETT Sigma2 - the National Infrastructure for
+  High Performance Computing and Data Storage in Norway and its predecessors.
+
+This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
+Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under Specific Grant Agreement
+- No. 720270 (Human Brain Project SGA1) and
+- No. 785907 (Human Brain Project SGA2) and
+- No. 754304 (DEEP-EST) and
+- No. 800858 (ICEI).
+