Supercomputer maps tiny fraction of human brain activity

by Ben Reilly Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:25 pm

... took it 40 minutes to compute one second from one percent ... but still!

The most accurate simulation of the human brain to date has been carried out in a Japanese supercomputer, with a single second’s worth of activity from just one per cent of the complex organ taking one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers 40 minutes to calculate.

Researchers used the K computer in Japan, currently the fourth most powerful in the world, to simulate human brain activity. The computer has 705,024 processor cores and 1.4 million GB of RAM, but still took 40 minutes to crunch the data for just one second of brain activity.

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“If petascale computers like the K computer are capable of representing one per cent of the network of a human brain today, then we know that simulating the whole brain at the level of the individual nerve cell and its synapses will be possible with exascale computers - hopefully available within the next decade,” said one of the scientists, Markus Diesmann.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10567942/Supercomputer-models-one-second-of-human-brain-activity.html

by Original Quill Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:45 pm

Very cool.

by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:28 pm

One small step toward the Singularity :D

by Guest Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:24 pm

there is a new tv series called intellgence not in the uk at the moment and only on episode 2

In Intelligence, Josh Holloway stars as Gabriel Vaughn, a high-tech intelligence operative enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain. With this implant, Gabriel is the first human ever to be connected directly into the global information grid. He can hack into any data center and access key intel in the fight to protect the United States from its enemies

give it say .............10-15 years and it will be a reality ......if its not already Suspect

by Original Quill Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:53 pm

Rather like Clark Kent, who can envision women naked with his X-ray vision.

by Guest Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:15 pm

Clearly, it wasnt a conservative brain it was mapping/simulating ://?roflmao?/:

by Beekeeper Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:11 am

An ATARI game machine from the 1980s with 16 MB of RAM (10 Mb hard disc a $400 optional extra..) would be more than sufficient to map the brain activity for the entire Tory front bench in the House of Lords...

OR the entire combined membership of the BNP and EDL.. cyclops

by Guest Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:40 am

Beekeeper wrote:

An ATARI game machine from the 1980s with 16 MB of RAM (10 Mb hard disc a $400 optional extra..) would be more than sufficient to map the brain activity for the entire Tory front bench in the House of Lords...

OR the entire combined membership of the BNP and EDL..

bloody marvelous bee

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