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8bitfuture: IBM hopes to simulate human brain in nine years. IBM’s Blue Brain Project has spent the last six years aiming to replicate the function of a human brain using supercomputers. At the last milestone two years ago, the group simulated the brain of a cat. Now a new research paper is claiming the “dawn of a new era in the scale of cortical simulations”, by announcing that 4.5% of a working human brain has been replicated using 147,456 processors The current schedule is set to have the simulated human brain 100% complete by 2019, using 880,000 processors.
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IBM hopes to simulate human brain in nine years.

IBM’s Blue Brain Project has spent the last six years aiming to replicate the function of a human brain using supercomputers. At the last milestone two years ago, the group simulated the brain of a cat.

Now a new research paper is claiming the “dawn of a new era in the scale of cortical simulations”, by announcing that 4.5% of a working human brain has been replicated using 147,456 processors

The current schedule is set to have the simulated human brain 100% complete by 2019, using 880,000 processors.

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