Only one second in human brain activity turned out to be comparable to 40 minutes of super computer "Kyo"

ByWellcome Images

The fourth fastest supercomputer in the world "Kyo"We succeeded in simulating a neural network coupled with 10.4 trillion billion synapses corresponding to 1% of the actual human brain. It is said that it reaches the same scale as the whole brain of the small primate monkey.

Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors - Tech News and Analysis
http://gigaom.com/2013/08/02/simulating-1-second-of-real-brain-activity-takes-40-minutes-83k-processors/

Successful simulation of 10 trillion coupled neural circuits using "Kei" | RIKEN
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Researcher teams in Japan and Germany conducted the largest historical neural circuit simulation in the human brain with 82,444 CPUs and Supercomputer Kyo with 1.4 petabytes of memory.


It seems that Kyatsu calculated over 40 minutes that it is biologically equivalent to one second, simulating a neural circuit with 1.73 billion nerve cells combined with 10.4 trillion synapses . In addition, this 10.4 trillion synapses corresponds to the scale of about 1% of neural circuits of the human brain, and it reaches the size of the whole brain of the small primate monkey.

ByBrian Scott

According to Marcus Deezman, the leader of the project that released the simulation, "The supercomputer like the Kyoto became comparable to 1% of the network of the human brain. I think that it will be possible to simulate individual neurons and their synapses throughout the brain using things with 1000 times the performance of Peta-scale computers within the year. "

ByNeerav Bhatt

More importantly, this latest brain simulation is simply open source software developed by scientistsNESTIt was a test that it was a test. Specific diseases andHuman Brain ProjectIn order to use it for other studies such as research, it is necessary to make adjustments according to those, but it turned out that advanced software is not necessary to unravel the mystery of the human brain.

ByTom Blackwell

With the progress and development of super computer and open source software NEST or software following it, more brain simulation will be carried out in the future and it is expected that various things which have not been understood until now will be found one after another The day when computers of computing speed comparable to the human brain finally appears, it should not be so far.