As an alternative, the EBRAINS research infrastructure offers collaboratories with NEST and many other neuroscience tools pre-installed, see

https://www.ebrains.eu/data/collaboratory

Best,

Hans Ekkehard

Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser

Department of Data Science

Faculty of Science and Technology

Norwegian University of Life Sciences

PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway

Phone +47 6723 1560

Email hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no

Home http://arken.nmbu.no/~plesser

From: Robin Gilbert De Schepper <robingilbert.deschepper@unipv.it>
Date: Thursday, 4 January 2024 at 10:44
To: NEST User Mailing List <users@nest-simulator.org>
Subject: [NEST Users] Re: NEST on Google Colab?

NEST is not pip installable, using !pip install -Uqq nest will install a "network stack tester" https://pypi.org/project/nest/

You will have to follow another installation route. I'm not sure which one is recommended for Google Collab. Perhaps the conda or CMake installation?

On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 at 00:58, Anthony Lee <anthonyylee@colorado.edu> wrote:

Hey Alvin,

You may have to restart the kernel because the installation was installed via a child shell process and have yet to be loaded into the current process that the kernel is running on.

IIRC, it is called “Restart runtime” in Google Colab.

Anthony

On Dec 22, 2023, at 12:46, Alvin Spivey <alvin.spivey@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to install and use NEST on google Colab, but it's not importing:

!pip install -Uqq nest

!pip install -Uqq nestml

!pip install -Uqq pysilsub

import nest

import nestml

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from pysilsub import observers

from nestml.network import Network

from nestml.models import ConeNakaRushton

Am I able to use NEST on Google Colab?

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Alvin J. Spivey, Ph.D.

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