Removed Features
This page aims at providing a short knowledge base designed to track dropped and potentially useful features for future development. To that end, the following table’s columns constitute:
the name of the feature; also stands as a keyword.
a short description; the main purpose is to have the feature as greppable as possible.
removal PR number(s) related to their removal from the codebase.
Short SHA pointing to the last master commit holding the feature for easy checkout.
Name / Keyword |
Short description |
Removal PR(s) |
SHA |
|---|---|---|---|
ni_pci_6229 |
This related to a circa 2007 project implementing hard real time dynamic clamp under RTAI linux. The development was done in conjunction with National Instruments’ NI PCI-6229 DAQ card. |
c46dbc7 |
|
bluegene |
Code related to BlueGene L, P and Q; support for BlueGene Checkpoint API (keywords: BGLCheckpoint, BGLCheckpointInit). |
74d3db9 |
|
SEJNOWSKI |
C Preprocessor flag. |
e9ef741 |
|
NRN_REALTIME |
NEURON support for RTAI - Real Time Application Interface for Linux. Also relates to ni_pci_6229 |
d5f6139 |
|
CYGWIN |
Windows versions now use MINGW (more native to WINDOWS). |
2f90f37 |
|
Carbon |
This legacy macOS toolkit was deprecated in 2012 and removed from macOS 10.15 |
8fecd77 |
|
LINDA |
Linda is a coordination model that aids communication in parallel computing environments. Side note: the bulletin board implemented within the ParallelContext is NEURON’s analogy to LINDA’s conceptual functionality of tuple space. |
a5c36e9 |
|
Java |
NEURON Java support. |
5a67957 |
|
GPU wheels |
Experimental support for |
fb17127 |