IBM launches the cat out of the bag
Yesterday, at the Supercomputing 2009 conference, IBM employees presented the results of brain modeling , consisting of more than one billion neurons (and 8.8 trillion (!) Synapses).
This is more than a cat's brain (hence the name of the article “10 Cat Neurons, 10 13 Synapses”) and makes up approximately 4% of the human brain.
Blue Gene / P DAWN with 147,456 processors and 144 TB of RAM was used for the simulation, but even it does not allow performing calculations in real time, therefore, it took about 1.5 minutes of calculations to simulate one second of physical time.
Nevertheless, as the authors of this model predict, by 2019 the fastest computer on Earth will be able to simulate the human brain in real time. This will require about 10 Petabytes of RAM and performance over 1 EFLOPS.
It is assumed that such a “bottom-up” modeling (from the simplest elements to the general system) will allow understanding how the human brain works, what kind of thinking and intelligence are and how they arise.
Needless to say, the project is being funded by the same DARPA , which, in particular, pays Boston Dynamics money.
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This is more than a cat's brain (hence the name of the article “10 Cat Neurons, 10 13 Synapses”) and makes up approximately 4% of the human brain.
Blue Gene / P DAWN with 147,456 processors and 144 TB of RAM was used for the simulation, but even it does not allow performing calculations in real time, therefore, it took about 1.5 minutes of calculations to simulate one second of physical time.
Nevertheless, as the authors of this model predict, by 2019 the fastest computer on Earth will be able to simulate the human brain in real time. This will require about 10 Petabytes of RAM and performance over 1 EFLOPS.
It is assumed that such a “bottom-up” modeling (from the simplest elements to the general system) will allow understanding how the human brain works, what kind of thinking and intelligence are and how they arise.
Needless to say, the project is being funded by the same DARPA , which, in particular, pays Boston Dynamics money.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/76864/
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