Guide to running
GENESIS on Husky (August 29,
2005)
- Each student in the Computational Neuroscience course is provided with
an account of Husky computer and a personal copy of GENESIS program .
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On a PC, run Cygwin using startxwin.bat in C:\cygwin\usr\x11R6\bin.
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type: xhost +husky.uchc.edu (Return)
- This allows the local PC to receive info from Husky.
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Then, minimize (or put on the side) the Cygwin window.
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Then access the “husky” server by double clicking the Putty icon,
typing in “husky” under host name, leaving the port as 22 and
leaving SSH selected. Then use your
login name and password to log in.
Note, after login, to do a backspace, you have to use cntrl-H.
- type: setenv DISPLAY {local IP address}:0.0 (Return), or
setenv DISPLAY {local computer name}:0.0 (Return)
e.g., setenv DISPLAY neurosciconf.uchc.net:0.0
- type: cd v22/Scripts/squid (Return)
- type: genesis Squid (Return)
Note: Beware that UNIX is case-sensitive.
The first "squid" is with a lower-case s, and the second with an upper-case S.
- In a few seconds you should get several windows that will let you
run the squid-axon simulation. This will allow you to learn
various features of the Hodgkin-Huxley model for generation of
action potentials in a squid axon (chapter 4 of The Book of GENESIS).
- When you're finished, type "exit".
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