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 brian2cuda
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 Please note that this package is still under developement and some features are not yet usable.
 
 Brian2cuda is an extention of the spiking neural network simulator [Brian2](https://github.com/brian-team/brian2), implementing a [Brian2 standalone device](http://brian2.readthedocs.io/en/stable/developer/devices.html) to generate C++/CUDA code to run simluations on NVIDIA general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs).