Write a new allocator for coreneuron

BlueBrain / CoreNeuron

Simulator optimized for large scale neural network simulations.

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Write a new allocator for coreneuron #201

Open ohm314 opened 5 years ago

ohm314 commented 5 years ago

To replace the more C-style alloc_memory, calloc_memory, emalloc_align and ecalloc_align with C++ class construction and allocation (using new and delete) we need to provide a new allocator that handles:

default allocation (fallback to default allocators)
aligned allocation
allocation on the GPU

ohm314 commented 3 years ago

This was partially taken care of here: https://github.com/BlueBrain/CoreNeuron/commit/557f2566427908b68918403da87e3af2af65914c But ultimately this will be part of our data-structure rewrite. For now we can keep it open, though.

olupton commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/BlueBrain/CoreNeuron/pull/606 also added some relevant utilities.