Data supporting manuscript "NoC Simulation steered by NEST: McAERsim and a Noxim Patch"

Data underlying the results presented in the article M. Robens, R. Kleijnen, M. Schiek, and S. van Waasen, "NoC Simulation steered by NEST: McAERsim and a Noxim Patch".

The zip-file comprises two subfolders: "NoC-Sim-Input" and "NoC-Sim-Output". The latter contains the simulation output that has been evaluated to create the plots presented in the publication, while the former contains simulation output generated by the neuroscientific simulator NEST (de Schepper et al., 2022) that has been used to stimulate the network-on-chip (NoC) simulations. There have been multiple simulation runs with different parameters that are encoded into the folder names. With regard to the simulation runs in NEST, the cortical microcircuit has been scaled to 10 percent (Scale_0_10) and 33 percent (Scale_0_33). With regard to the network-on-chip simulations, there have been runs with one processing element per router (1PE) and four processing elements per router (4PE). Also, different casting schemes have been examined: unicast (UC), destination-address driven local multicast (LMC), source-address driven local multicast (LMC_SRC), and multicast (MC). Further information on the virtual hardware setup as well as the input data used for the network-on-chip simulations can be found in the publication. Details on how to modify the respective configuration files are contained in the publication and its supplementary material.

For simulations at default scale (cortical microcircuit scaled to 10 percent) with one processing element per router and for all casting types but multicast lines 9-14 mechanically have been stripped from the simulations' output redirections by the command line tool sed to avoid the unnecessary exposition of potentially personally identifiable data. (This applies to the files 'mesh_6x6_256_npn_*.txt' as well as 'torus_6x6_256_npn_*.txt'.)

Also note that the simulators have been renamed for the publication of source code. The patched version of Noxim has been called NENoCSi, while the simulator initially termed Ximno has been called McAERsim.

If you use this dataset, please cite it in your publications.