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Blue Brain Project

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Blue Brain Project

world's first virtual brain
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WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN?

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Need of virtual brain

COMPUTER HARDWARE/ SUPERCOMPUTERS

  • 4,096 quad-core nodes   1 PB of disk space, GPFS parallel file system
  • Each core is a PowerPC 450, 850 MHz
  • Total: 56 teraflops, 16 terabytes of memory
  • 4 racks, one row, wired as a 16x16x16 3D torus
  • Operating system: Linux SuSE SLES 10

uploading human brain

how it is possible?

Merits and demerits

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CONCLUSION

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