Mouse brain simulated on computer

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.

The team, from the IBM Almaden Research Lab and the University of Nevada, ran the simulation on a BlueGene L supercomputer that had 4,096 processors, each one of which used 256MB of memory.

Using this machine the researchers created half a virtual mouse brain that had 8,000 neurons that had up to 6,300 synapses.

The vast complexity of the simulation meant that it was only run for ten seconds at a speed ten times slower than real life - the equivalent of one second in a real mouse brain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6600965.stm

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[bigwheel15 10+ year member]

Ive done that afew times with my computer.

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

even if its only half a mouses brain for a single second i think thats got to be some of the most advanced shit ever

imagine in 10 years... or even 20... wont be long till i-robot becomes a reality

 

[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

its amazing what a brain can do...

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

That's ****ing cool. And scary.

 

[WantedIsHere]

and we thought we saw allot in our lives... Imagine what our grand children will be seeing when they are our ages... Its going to be near the end of our lives but I'm sure it will be some cool shit... I just hope our generation range will be more open to tech and advances.

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

and we thought we saw allot in our lives... Imagine what our grand children will be seeing when they are our ages... Its going to be near the end of our lives but I'm sure it will be some cool shit... I just hope our generation range will be more open to tech and advances.

We will be too busy trying to pay off social security.

 

[WantedIsHere]

nah, the computers will figure that out for us and by that time we as a nation will have come to a reality that the GOP is a bunch of idiots who only have the correct views on gun controll and they will be vanished from the face of the earth.

 

[Buffalohed 10+ year member]

*banished

Sounds good though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif