Hi Benedikt!
How are you creating your SynapseCollections? If you call GetConnections() without any arguments, you should receive all connections and then you can call set() on them once. Then you wouldn't need to store the SynapseCollections in a list, all connections would be represented by the SynapseCollection. You can also pass individual/sliced/composite etc. NodeCollections to GetConnections to get specific connections.
Your idea about a composite SynapseCollection is interesting. It is not possible at the moment though. The problem I see is that we have to be careful about what happens if Connect is called between two calls to GetConnections, because the first SynapseCollection might then be invalid. Another problem can occur if you call GetConnections with sources as arguments and store that SynapseCollection, then call GetConnections again without any arguments and store that SynapseCollection. Your second SynapseCollection will then contain the connections of the first SynapseCollection, and a composite SynapseCollection will have too many connections. We cannot have unique connections in a SynapseCollection, because calling Connect several times with the same NodeCollections is allowed.
We don't have any more pages covering the transition from NEST 2 to 3 than the two unfortunately. But, we have tried to go through the documentation as much as possible, so that the pages are updated to fit with NEST 3. You might find this page helpful https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ref_material/pynest_apis.htm..., it contains a list of functions for the PyNEST interface, with descriptions of the functions, the arguments it take and what the function returns.
Best regards, Stine
________________________________ Fra: Hans Ekkehard Plesser hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no Sendt: 2. mars 2020 22:58 Til: NEST User Mailing List Emne: [NEST Users] Re: nest3: How to create composite of SynapseCollections
Hello Benedikt!
I will leave it to the SynapseCollection experts to answer your questions about SC-details.
But your question made me wonder if you are building your network from an explicitly specified connectome, i.e., a table with one row per connection, specifying source, target, weight and delay. In that case, our new feature to build connections directly from NumPy arrays may be useful for you (and fast). It is still under review, but you can find it at
https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/1429
Best regards, Hans Ekkehard
On 2 Mar 2020, at 22:21, benedikt.s.vogler@tum.demailto:benedikt.s.vogler@tum.de wrote:
Hello everyone! I am transitioning my Code from nest 2 to nest 3. In nest 2 I used a list of connections and could use this list with nest.Get/SetStatus(). With nest 3 I now have a list of SynapseCollections instances, where each synapse collection contains only one connection. For node collections, there seems to be an operator to create a composite (https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/from_nest2_to_nest3.h...). For SynapseCollections, however, I was unable to use the plus operator and could not find similar documentation as in the transition guide. My current workaround is to loop over each instance the list and call Set() on each instance/synapse. What is the recommended way to create a SynapseCollections from many?
Is there somewhere more documentation covering nest 3 than the two pages covering the changes form nest 2 to 3?
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