X-Message-Number: 26317 From: Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 05:27:23 EDT Subject: Re: Blue Brain Project (uploading-related news) From: "Mikhail Soloviev" <> > The Blue Brain project, as it s called, will focus primarily on > neuroscience. > Scientists from the institute want to create a detailed model of the > neocortex, the largest and most complex part of the mammal brain. > > They hope to extend their work to the rest of the brain, something that > has never been attempted before at the cellular level. They should also > gain better understanding of processes such as thought, perception and > memory, as well as some of the causes of psychiatric disorders. > It seems uploading has come a step closer than some week ago. They don't bother it seems to put only one neuron on a chip... A rough estimate is that one neuron ask for 10,000 FLOPs, at 22 TeraFLOPs, they can then simulate 2.2 billion neurons at real time. I fear 10,000 FLOPs is aunderestimate by one order of magnitude yet, so the system could be good at simulating at full brain only for slow currents. This is what I have assumed in other messages : A general purpose computer is good for that part of the simulation, it remains to add the fast part, using FPGA technology. Yvan Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26317