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May 3, 2008
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We are migrating to the new server box. All services including web, cvs and change logs update should be up and running by now.
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March 24, 2008
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The third iteration of our Neuroinformatics submission went out. In the process we packed 0.3.4 release
candidate and tested it on SuSE, Fedora Core, KUbuntu, and CentOS. We also tested CVS installation on
these systems except KUbuntu. To simplify installation process for the user we dedicated a section of this
website to Installation Guide. A few caveats that we found are pinpointed there and easy solutions are suggested.
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December 16, 2007
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We are resubmitting a paper in Neuroinformatics on KInNeSS. One of the issues reviewers pointed
out was a problem building KInNeSS. Since there are all various flavors of Linux around, we cannot
test every possible configuration. Here is the list that definitely works: All flavors of SuSE
up to 10: I use 10 for development at the moment, 9 and 8 did not have problems in the past as long
as KDE was recent. A few Fedora core and RedHat flavors generally work, but I suggest copying of admin
directory instead of linking it as user manual suggests. What seems to have definite issues are new
Ubuntu flavors. We will appreciate all reports of installation success or failure on various systems.
In the mean while long promised CPPVODE is almost at the production stage. I branched SANNDRA version
for it and work on the datatype integration.
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August 28, 2007
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In the process of our user base expansion we found that there are problems compiling KInNeSS on gcc-4.1.x
Ubuntu system. We fixed the code issues, but there is still an issue with automake system incorrectly
communicating with KDE build system. I would presume that new Ubuntu uses versions of autoconf and automake
that are not yet supported by KDE build system.
In the meanwhile we introduced long awaited branched dendritic structure. It is not fully tested with
population cloning, other than that Jasmin tested it enough to call it beta. This change leads to
incompatibility between older KInNeSS and newer NeuroML version (1.3). There will be one more change to NeuroML
in KInNeSS, I am in the process of changing the approach the synaptic weights are handled. As always,
newer KInNeSS does not have problems with old NeuroML (1.2). I removed support for NeuroML we used 3
years ago (1.1).
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November 28, 2006
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Due to popular demand, I put release candidates for next versions as tarballs in the
download section of this site.
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June 3, 2006
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CVS has a few bugfixes that I did over the year, and I still don't have time to put a release together.
In the meanwhile I am working on SANNDRA-2.0.0 providing more modular design and relaxing license
requirement for the new core engine to LGPL, so that commercial applications can use it too. Julia
Berzhanskaya was granted a feature presentation at Computational Neuroscience Meeting this year for
her research done with the help of KInNeSS.
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August 25, 2005
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I completed the new input protocol editor, now it allows to use almost arbitrary input sequences. I the process
I realized that I am more and more dependent on KDE 3.4 functionality. I will probably remove support
for earlier versions immediately after the release.
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August 8, 2005
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The new CVS server is established. The old server will function until September. To convert to a new
server put this script into your root sanndra or kinness directory and execute it.
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June 9, 2005
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First of all I have completed my PhD and started a postdoctoral research, of which KInNeSS is an integral
part. That means I will do much more development in the future. Second, I noticed that I did not make
a public release for a year, so I will be putting the next version release candidate up shortly. It will
contain the current CVS version before I will start to add any drastic changes. It is well tested by both
me in the process of my dissertation preparation and by Max. A few remaining issues will be fixed in the
near future, while the whole new computational engine will be developed in a separate CVS branch. Finally,
Max has put together a video tutorial of first steps in using KInNeSS and KPL, which is available
here.
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March 6, 2005
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CVS is back to full functionality. I've just checked in the serious
rewrite of SANNDRA's synapses. There are few API changes, mainly renaming TUnit::addDependency
methods, removing TAxonUnit, and adding TTerminalUnit,
TDepleteableTUnit, and TSomaLayer. Technically
it should be 2.0.0 now, but I am planning to change it more shortly. Documentation section
on SANNDRA now contains my personal copy of API, which is not really API because it shows
all private parts :)
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March 2, 2005
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It has been a long break in the news while I was writing up my dissertation. In the process I reworked
several old visualization tools and added new including local field potential and current source density
displays. The server was upgraded to SuSE 9.2, and CVS will be back up in couple of days. Due to
popular demands I am reworking synapses to add depleteable transmitters and connection-specific
axonal delays. Not sure how much of SANNDRA API changes will it cause.
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September 20, 2004
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Apparently, while I was out of the country, the server died. I apologize for the inconvenience. I am
back and working on improved learning laws. There are minor issues with 3 addDependency methods of
TUnit class for those who uses SANNDRA as standalone library. Two parameters had changed their
meanings from 1.0.0 version. The API is the same, so it will compile, run and misbehave if you used them.
KInNeSS users should not worry, it is all taken care of.
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June 26, 2004
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Starting today cvs head contains what will be SANNDRA-1.1.0 and KInNeSS-0.3.3. You can still
compile KInNeSS-0.3.2 against SANNDRA-1.1.x, if you change line 57 of configure.in.in
from sanndra_ver=1.0 to sanndra_ver=1.1. KInNeSS-0.3.3 requires
SANNDRA-1.1.x to compile.
I am in the process of adding numerical integration for stiff systems. The metod will be CVODE
(a part of SUNDIALS package,
distributed under BSD license, also used in
XPP by Bard Ermentrout).
It will be fully rewritten in C++ (for license issues: meaning that yes, I looked at the original code
dated 1994 for guidance and often tried to name variables similar to the original, but all data
structures and their interactions were designed from scratch). I tentatively call it CPPVODE.
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May 25, 2004
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Apparently, registration of kinness.net led to immediate attack by some hacker on the server.
I apologize for your inconvenience while we bring the system back up.
Thanks to everybody who attended our poster at ICCNS for the feedback. The PDF of the poster
is available in the Documentation
section. I'm putting together all suggestions and examples for the release later this week.
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March 15, 2004
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Release of KInNeSS-0.3.2 and SANNDRA-1.0.0(beta) with full documentation is scheduled on May 1st,
2004
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