Fixes several bugs. Adds ConcatGroup and several other improvements.

Release candidate for Auryn v0.8.3 maintenance release with reworked SyncBuffer, added ConcatGroup, and improvements (FileInputGroup, Python tools, etc).

Auryn v0.8.2 is an overdue maintenance release which includes various fixes and minor improvements.

Main improvements where made on:

• Code compatibility with non x86 architectures
• Python3 support for the Auryn Python tools
• Improvements to modular synapse/neuron models
• Added an example of a 2-compartment model (NaudGroup)

This closes #33

Multiple updates and minor extensions to AurynVector class

Adds complex synapse support and OOP-based vectorization throughout.

Bugfixes and change of name of Python tools analysis library.

Fixes memory alignment problem and some other bugs. Moreover, merges some features from testing branch:

• Renames global variable holding the simulation timestep dt to auryn_timestep
• Adds master seeding mechanisms in System
• Introduces abstract base class Trace for all synaptic traces
• Trace is a derived class of AurynStateVector

Adds

• Boost unit tests
• Python analysis code for binary output files (see tools/python)
• New abstract base class Device for Monitor

Important interface changes

• Concerning the global variables of MPI environment: mpienv and mpicommunicator (instead of env and communicator) now defined in auryn_global.h and initialized via auryn_init() function -- see examples

Pre-release of Auryn 0.8.0

This release comes with numerous upgrades, performance improvements and bug fixes.

Performance history from Auryn 0.7.0 to Auryn 0.8.0:

Main changes

• Complete refactor of SyncBuffer for parallel performance
• Complete refactor of AurynStateVector as a template class
• Refactor of IFGroup and AIFGroup to new AurynVector interface
• Changes memory alignment of AurynVector data for SIMD optimizations
• Improved handling of ComplexMatrix states and
• Performance optimizations in ComplexMatrix
• Performance optimizations in SparseConnection
• Performance optimizations in Connection
• Performance optimizations in AurynVector
• API changes in Connection
• Adds groupstate variables to SpikingGroup
• Adds AllToAllConnection
• Adds IafPscExpGroup
• Adds CubaIFGroup
• Adds Izhikevich neuron model als IzhikevichGroup
• Adds BinaryStateMonitor and the decoder tool "aubs" (a better name might be in order though)