Recipe
Cell descriptions
gid 1
type lif_cell
description
...
...
gid 37
type cable_cell
description
  • Morphology
  • Ion channels
  • Connection sites
  • Labels
Cell kinds
gid 1 lif_cell
...
gid 37 cable_cell
...
Simulator: kind of gid=1?
Recipe: lif_cell.
...
Simulator: kind of gid=37?
Recipe: cable_cell.
Group implementations for lif_cell, cable_cell
Domain decomposition: group-0, group-1
Simulator requests cell description of gid=37
Recipe: morphology, ....
Simulator:
group-0 make cable_cell
group-1 make lif_cell
Simulator:
group-0 simulate for dt
group-1 simulate for dt
Simulation
Recipe
Context
12 threads
1 GPU
Domain decomposition
group-0
kind: cable
hardware: 1 GPU
gids: 37, ...
group-1
kind: lif
hardware: 12 threads
gids: 1, ...
...
An illustration of the cell-specific portion of the recipe, and how it is used during the lifetime of the simulation: the simulation object will, depending on its configuration, query the recipe for the neuroscientific components it describes. This demonstration also show why the recipe separates cell descriptions from cell types. The latter is, as you might expect, shorthand, and is used in the allocation of the cell to a particular cell group. A cell group implementation is a handler for a certain kind of cell, and Arbor comes with these for all it's included cell kinds. However, users can develop their own specialized cell group implementations. More on that in the internal developer documentation.