2024 08 26 Open NEST Developer Video Conference
- Welcome
- Review of NEST User Mailing List
- Project team round
- In-depth discussion
- test cases
- Building on MacOS
Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.
Go to the Project boards.
Sometimes papers uncover a corner case that was not tested in NEST.
Always keep in mind: Including such an application of NEST as a test case into NEST is only possible if the corresponding code is contributed by the authors, or available under a compatible license.
On old Apple silicon libraries need to be built anyways. Now on Intel silicon the system libraries mix in and cause a strange error:
mpirun -np1 nest sim.sli
mpirun -np1 python sim.py
works, but using more than one process
mpirun -np2 python sim.py
breaks.
Basing everything on Brew installed tools and libraries solves the problem.
Readline is problematic, as it needs readline[ncurses].
Brew apparently intentionally hides readline, ncurses and omp libraries from the compiler search paths.
Updating installation instructions is probably necessary.
