The main resource on information about NEST is the homepage of the NEST Initiative at http://www.nest-initiative.org

See also: Diesmann, Markus and Gewaltig, Marc-Oliver (2002) NEST: An Environment for Neural Systems Simulations Goettingen : Ges. fuer Wiss. Datenverarbeitung, Forschung und wisschenschaftliches Rechnen, Beitraege zum Heinz-Billing-Preis 2001. 58 : 43–70; Morrison, Abigail and Mehring, Carsten and Geisel, Theo and Aertsen, Ad and Diesmann, Markus (2005) Advancing the boundaries of high connectivity Network access and administration simulation with distributed computing Neural Computation. 17 (8) : 1776–1801; Eppler, Jochen, Diploma Thesis, University of Freiburg (2006), http://mindzoo.de/files/DiplomaThesis-Eppler.pdf; Eppler, Jochen and Helias, Moritz and Muller, Eilif and Diesmann, Markus and Gewaltig, Marc-Oliver (2008) PyNEST: A convenient interface to the NEST simulator. Front. Neuroinform. 2 : 12. doi:10.3389/neuro.11.012.2008