Friday, March 02, 2007
An overview of the Blue Brain project
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~steve/markham.pdf (Feb 2006)
Blue Brain is a project to build a simulation of the entire brain by first modeling the columns, then using the column module to build the entire thing.
Each column takes about 10,000 neurons, and they are estimating that an accurate simulation of the column will be achieved within a year from now.
Currently, Blue Brain can simulate about 100,000,000 simple neurons. But what's the number of synapses on that? The number of synapses adds several orders of magnitude of complexity to any simulation.
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~steve/markham.pdf (Feb 2006)
Blue Brain is a project to build a simulation of the entire brain by first modeling the columns, then using the column module to build the entire thing.
Each column takes about 10,000 neurons, and they are estimating that an accurate simulation of the column will be achieved within a year from now.
Currently, Blue Brain can simulate about 100,000,000 simple neurons. But what's the number of synapses on that? The number of synapses adds several orders of magnitude of complexity to any simulation.
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