NRRPLT-6586

* [NRRPLT-6858] Add pipeline

* [NRRPLT-6858] ExDBackend clone missing

* [NRRPLT-6858] wrong path in generated

* [NRRPLT-6858] remove brainsimulation egg-links

* [NRRPLT-6858] missing egg-links removals

* [NRRPLT-6858] Simplify PYTHONPATH

* [NRRPLT-6586] Add branch dependencies

* [NRRPLT-6586] Reinstate get_neuron_count

* [NRRPLT-6586] Make get_neuron_count static

* [NRRPLT-6586] Externalize topic branches to admin script

* [NRRPLT-6586] Externalize topic branches to admin script 2

* [NRRPLT-6586] link to ContinuousIntegration not needed anymore

* [NRRPLT-6586] Remove more eggs

* [NRRPLT-6858] Add pipeline

* [NRRPLT-6858] ExDBackend clone missing

* [NRRPLT-6858] wrong path in generated

* [NRRPLT-6858] remove brainsimulation egg-links

* [NRRPLT-6858] missing egg-links removals

* [NRRPLT-6858] Simplify PYTHONPATH

* [NRRPLT-6586] Add branch dependencies

* [NRRPLT-6586] Reinstate get_neuron_count

* [NRRPLT-6586] Make get_neuron_count sta...

[NRRPLT-6586] Makefile uses no VPN anymore

Approved-by: Manos Angelidis <angelidis@fortiss.org>

Change-Id: I6c9c36efbe2a9e9371d24f4b2cc7a3b2c4742329

Change-Id: If0207b1fc375ae849c69da6354ccdabc18ee98c5

- Implements the (missing) method _create_robot_adapters
- Changes NRP_MODELS_DIRECTORY into NRP_SIMULATION_DIR as required

Change-Id: I94a3e6efde1627d1d2099da91ae84819046ceafb

Change-Id: I6718dca7657aa3e3d0bf76b927271e30173573de

Change-Id: I21c3f69bf7b8b389ebd5b48ee2c5ce2eeaf86af2

Change-Id: I9a40191cede66e1c502999954c53836991f35e3e

Change-Id: If3680be0252d983ea6c3ea7ff6bee5e2be63b42a

Change-Id: I71b42bbbabd8c1807fb410c919f23299b09f07e8

Change-Id: I993646762d9900b5987fb0bb29d52dedd90a0603

Change-Id: I7f1f9b543453ee2e56128089ccdcb82a32309a2e

Change-Id: I01c45aad84d973f2e31c1758fa827221b9539871

The script reads the repos.txt file from the user-scripts and:

1. Compares the old version with the new one in all the repos, and
   if they new is smaller it stops execution
2. Changes all the versions in all the repos to the new version

Change-Id: I9ddff07ea935adb73e595a2e8d6a404b08e69a21

This patch implements all functionality required for dynamic, distributed
Nest interfaces that behave the same as single-process nest for local installs.

The existing MUSIC interfaces are deprecated and now subclass the adapters
and interfaces in the new hbp_distributed_nest package.

This patch does not support distributed, cluster launching, but this can
be adapted in the future from the existing MUSIC launchers.

Change-Id: I1aac3a59843d9fdfe051a9674566f3b3f5040ac1

Change-Id: I7b142d863c95d9597b290f3ab27c85637e56af2d

Change-Id: If63ddac9a6265b9ae6bc61e0350e087b0e1a29fe

Change-Id: I6b9ee3680630db3a3f2399a12164dba94b6a4c3e

This patch removes the hardcoded 20ms timestep value and instead
references the default value set in the CLE.

Change-Id: Iaa17d20a39b6c6b0b3fd271a19db3ddff42b6fe6

This patch adds support for setting a global RNG seed to be used
across all processes - the CLE and brain processes.

Change-Id: I8f4554e0684fa69bb801083e5f9dbecaa275f8f8

This patch resolves the distributed simulation performance issues by
ensuring all brain simulation processes are using the correct simulation/
integration timestep. Previously, the main CLE process would advance with
the correct timestep (default 20ms), but each distributed process was
advancing with the simulator timestep (default 0.1ms) - causing significant
overhead and 200x the calls on each remote process.

This patch improves performance to nearly realtime (small overhead for
multiple processes) rather than the prior hundreds of times slower. Further
optimizations can be made in the CLE as we add larger scale brains.

Change-Id: Id3974b31efc24508b3c48b9e7d1e250f44db8be8

Change-Id: Ica268ea6de36827b5c1dcf519176c12dbd3c1f6c

After the removal of the additional hbp-nrp dependencies to
support Bitbucket installation, our Jenkins builds now (again)
build one version of numpy with scipy and one separately as
specified by the CLE. This patch migrates the early installation of
numpy from the CLE to mitigate this.

All packages were updated to future proof dependencies, failure is
ignored and normal installation will proceed if there is no numpy
requirement specified.

Minor pylint cleanup also performed in the setup.py files.

Change-Id: I6b055439c80d931845937939261eb4b6b649c50a

Change-Id: Ice875bc5a3c36960370a83ac2d5713d167345b53

Change-Id: I5841d1f46fd9576402153e5ef8a7b3fcbccaf9b9

Change-Id: Ia51a19ea0aaf5b8d79c1c22a7b583bdfd078fd1f

Change-Id: Ib61b9b12602c1e614112df65212057a18c4c3ecf

Change-Id: Ie85485b9e5d42a0b66b8b73c8e0be71b2eb98e89

Change-Id: I56a07038278bd54bcab3b7206a8c73827b66dd36

Change-Id: Ica4c795a5c6da07c70627c6cd32e453915d54761

This patch changes the Lugano launch configuration to deploy the
nrp-variables script generated by Puppet to the remote hosts and
properly override NRP_VARIABLES_PATH to ensure Gazebo launch succeeds.

The previous version only set the _VERSION variables, but the file is
required to be accessible for the Gazebo launch to succeed in a staging
environment.

Change-Id: I06ec74420fdd35d3219ee311531aa8d57504936b

Change-Id: Ia73b4940cc7e8df13d2353821886c5f6fb004770

Change-Id: I728bdc39d3e510e63c39f72769a6bf05d29ce919