Enable use of NEST 3

Created by: jarsi

With the upcoming release of NEST 3 some function calls change a little bit. This PR addresses these changes and guarantees compatibility with both NEST 2 and NEST 3. At the beginning of a simulation it is determined whether NEST 2 or 3 features should be used. Based on this the parts in question are run accordingly.

Created by: AlexVanMeegen

Great work, @jarsi! Apologies for letting this hang in the air for so long. Not sure though if I am an appropriate reviewer, my NEST 3 is not yet fluent. @jasperalbers, do you have time to take a look? Or maybe @ackurth?

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Created by: jasperalbers

Review: Changes requested

Looks really good! I formulated my suggested changes as a PR onto this one, see here.

requested review from @didihou

Created by: jasperalbers

Review: Approved

. Tested the downscaled version locally with both nest 2 and 3 and ran without issues.

Merged by: jarsi at 2022-01-26 16:50:45 UTC

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Created by: jarsi

Thanks @jasperalbers for your review! I went ahead and merged with master