CRITICAL

Spiking Reservoir with a critical branching factor

Dependencies

Main requirements:

• Python 3.6 wit Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib
• Brian2

Setup Anaconda environment

conda create -n critical python=3.6 pip
source activate critical

conda install matplotlib nose
conda install -c conda-forge brian2

Downloading the code

Download the source code from the git repository:

mkdir -p $HOME/work
cd $HOME/work
git clone https://github.com/NECOTIS/CRITICAL.git

Running unit tests

Make sure the project is in the Python path:

export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/work/CRITICAL:$HOME/work/CRITICAL/test:$PYTHONPATH

This can also be added at the end of $HOME/.bashrc

To ensure all libraries where correctly installed, it is advised to run the test suite:

cd $HOME/work/CRITICAL/test
./run_tests.sh

Note that this can take a little while.

Running experiments

Make sure the project is in the Python path:

export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/work/CRITICAL:$HOME/work/CRITICAL/test:$PYTHONPATH

This can also be added at the end of $HOME/.bashrc

cd $HOME/work/CRITICAL/scripts/experiments/poisson
python main_poisson_input.py