Run CoreNEURON MOD file functional tests in online mode

[pramodk]

Similar to #308 but we should make sure the tests are running with direct in-memory transfer as well as file based transfer.

Here is I manually do this:

# install neuron
git clone https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn.git
mkdir nrn/build
cd nrn/build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/install -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=`which python3.6` -DNRN_ENABLE_INTERVIEWS=OFF -DNRN_ENABLE_MOD_COMPATIBILITY=ON
make -j install

# install coreneuron
git clone https://github.com/BlueBrain/CoreNeuron.git
mkdir CoreNeuron/build
cd CoreNeuron/build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/install
make -j install

And build testcorenrn:

git clone https://github.com/nrnhines/testcorenrn.git
cd /testcorenrn
$HOME/install/bin/nrnivmodl mod
$HOME/install/bin/nrnivmodl-core mod

And run tests from readme:

#!/bin/sh

names="deriv gf kin conc watch vecplay"

# run neuron
for i in $names ; do
  x86_64/special -c sim_time=100 test${i}.hoc
  cat out${i}.dat | sort -k 1n,1n -k 2n,2n > out_nrn_${i}.spk
  rm out${i}.dat
done

# run coreneuron direct memory mode
for i in $names ; do
  x86_64/special -c sim_time=100 -c coreneuron=1 test${i}.hoc
  cat out.dat | sort -k 1n,1n -k 2n,2n > out_core_online_${i}.spk
  rm out.dat
done

# run coreneuron file transfer mode
for i in $names ; do
  x86_64/special-core -d test${i}dat --cell-permute 1 -e 100
  cat out.dat | sort -k 1n,1n -k 2n,2n > out_core_file_${i}.spk
  rm out.dat
done

for i in $names ; do
  diff -w -q out_nrn_${i}.spk out_core_online_${i}.spk
  diff -w -q out_nrn_${i}.spk out_core_file_${i}.spk
done

[olupton]

neuronsimulator/nrn#1019 includes the configuration to do exactly this. Each test from https://github.com/neuronsimulator/testcorenrn is in principle run in all of [NEURON, CoreNEURON-online-GPU, CoreNEURON-offline-GPU, CoreNEURON-online-CPU, CoreNEURON-offline-CPU] (with unsupported combinations disabled for now).

I'm not sure if we should close this issue when that PR is merged, or wait until it is actually used in the CoreNEURON CI.

[olupton]

See links above; I think this can be closed now.