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See also: Alexander D. Protopapas, Michael Vanier and James M. Bower. Chapter 12: "Simulating Large Networks of Neurons" in Methods in Neuronal Modeling: From Ions to Networks, 2nd edition, Christof Koch and Idan Segev, eds, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1998