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BlueBrain / neurodamus

A BBP Simulation Control application for NEURON

https://neurodamus.readthedocs.io

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Crash test mode #190

Closed ferdonline closed 2 months ago

ferdonline commented 3 months ago

Context

Some simulations are pretty heavy, requiring a lot of nodes and time while, unfortunately, some problems only manifest in such very large scenarios.

In order to improve the experience when testing new circuits, features or debugging a failure we introduce a new "Crash test" mode.

The new mode runs a simplified version of the circuit:

Cells feature a single section
Connections (between 2 cells) feature a single synapse (to the only section)

Therefore, while results are meaningless, the vast majority of Neurodamus internal machinery runs very quickly, allowing debug sessions to be orders of magnitude faster.

Scope

Added new CLI option --crash-test
Defined a new full-python cell featuring a single section, with all required attributes
Implement a new create_single() function in Connection

Testing

Ran sonataconf-sscx-O1 blueconfigs test (1000 cells) in a single rank:

real    5m37.478s
user    3m44.838s
sys 0m3.816s

including 80 seconds for simulating 100 ms

Review

[x] PR description is complete
[x] Coding style (imports, function length, New functions, classes or files) are good
[x] Unit/Scientific test added
[ ] Updated Readme, in-code, developer documentation

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WeinaJi commented 2 months ago

LGTM. Thanks for implementing this new feature.