The paper: Richert M, Nageswaran JM, Dutt N, Krichmar JL (2011) An efficient simulation environment for modeling large-scale cortical processing. Front Neuroinform 5:19 contains a link to the source code for their simulator: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma/Richert-FrontNeuroinf-SourceCode.zip It compiles under linux and requires an NVIDIA Cuda Driver and SDK to be installed.