MPGENESIS 2.2.1             
                 MPI based Parallel Genesis
       
                       Christo Panchev
                christo.panchev@sunderland.ac.uk
                University of Sunderland, UK
                            2002
               
               
1. Installation
  First you have to rebuild GENESIS (see Changes-Genesis.txt
  for details)
  MPGenesis is written as an additional library to Genesis.
  After unpacking, change to src/
  There are several Makefiles.ARHC corresponding to different 
  architectures on which MPGenesis has been compiled.
  Choose the file appropriate for your system, and edit it.
  Edit the file Makefile, and uncomment one of the lines which includes
  the makefile appropriate for you architecture. 
  If such section/file does not exist, you are on your own... please 
  use one of the existing architeture makefiles as a template.
  In the Makefile, there are also a few more variables which you should
  setup (the user-configurable section)
  
  Currently the are makefiles for:
    Solaris using Sun HPC
    Linux using Scali MPI

  Then, as usual, type:
  make
  make nxmpgenesis

  etc.

2. Here are the command which MPGENESIS adds:

  rcommand
  raddmsg
  barrier
  rconnect
  rsetweights
  rsetdelays
  rcreatemap
  rshowsyn

  plus the remote command execution and addressing as in PGENESIS

3. Examples

  You can find the MPGENESIS version of the Orient tutorial sripts
  in the Scripts/orient directory.
  The Readme file contains examples of command lines used to start
  the demo on different platforms.

4. 
	Copyright 2002 - 2003, University of Sunderland, UK

	MPGENESIS is part of the GENESIS simulation software package
	and is covered by permisions to use, copy, modify and distribute
	similar	to GENESIS....
	The software is provided "as it is". The University of Sunderland 
	has no responsibility for any damage or loss caused by the use 
	of this software...
	
5. The software has been tested and used with CGENESIS (a computational
  version/extension of GENESIS implementing integrate-and-fire type 
  neurons). It has also been tested with the Orient tutorial. There has 
  not yet been extensive testing with the standard Genesis objects.

  If there are any bugs or problems, I would be happy to help. My email
  is christo.panchev@sunderland.ac.uk

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