BLUE BRAIN PROJECT

CONTENTS: Human Brain

What is Blue Brain Project ? What is the Aim of developing it ? What is a Virtual Brain ? How is it possible? Building a virtual brain Computer hardware / Supercomputers Advantages & Disadvantages Conclusion

immensely powerful energy efficient self-learning self-repairing computer.

HUMAN BRAIN

HUMAN BRAIN

It gets deceases which leads to death…

Short term memory Memory power decreases with age

increasing…

BLUE BRAIN PROJECT

When?

Why the name BLUE BRAIN ?

What is the purpose ?

AIM To gain a complete

understanding of the brain and to enable better and faster

development of brain disease treatments.

VIRTUAL BRAIN

Virtual brain is an artificial brain, which can act as the human brain.Intelligence is the inborn quality that cannot be created.What if we upload ourselves into computer, we were simply aware of a computer, or maybe, what if we lived in a computer as a program?

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE

??

NanobotsWe only know the media and contents.

Methods

Invasive Non-invasive

BUILDING A VIRTUAL BRAIN

DATA ACQUISITION

DATA SIMULATION

DATA VISUALIZATION

DATA ACQUISITION

DATA SIMULATION The primary software used –NEURON

Workflow :: -Emergent properties are seen that require larger and larger networks. -To build a generalized simulation tool, - To couple the brain simulations to all environments -To be able to understand and reproduce human consciousness.

BBK-SDK

Example NEURON cell builder window

DATA VISUALIZATION

RTNeuron :: the primary application for visualization of neural simulations. 

RTNeuron takes the output from other simulations and renders them into 3D.

Multi scaled visualizations rendering individual neurons of a whole cortical column.   RTNeuron visualization of a

neuron

COMPUTER HARDWARE OR

SUPERCOMPUTERS Blue Gene Supercomputer Commodity PC Clusters JuQUEEN Supercomputers DEEP exascale computers

Blue Gene

Blue Gene/P technical specifications:

4,096 quad-core nodes (16,384 cores in total)

Total: 56 teraflops, 16 terabytes of memory 4 racks, GPFS parallel file system

Operating system: Linux SuSE SLES 10

Public front end:bluegene.epfl.ch and processing log

When and by whom?

Presently ranked above 500

Commodity PC Clusters

Specifications:

11 node cluster, 3.47 GHz processors (Intel Xeon X5690)

24 GB RAM, 3 Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 GPUs

Full-HD passive stereo display connected to two GPUs on head node

Visualization purpose

JuQUEEN Supercomputer

Current performance ~ 1.6 petaflops

World's 8th fastest supercomputer.

Aims to develop a three-dimensional, realistic model of the human brain.

JuQUEEN supercomputer in Germany

DEEP Supercomputer

Exascale supercomputer

100 petaflopsWill be built using Intel

MIC1 exaflops of

performance required for a complete human brain simulation

DEEP cluster-booster architecture

ADVANTAGES

Remembering things without effort.

Using intelligence beyond life.

Making decisions without the presence of a person.

Animals thoughts can also be analyzed.

It would allow the deaf to hear via direct nerve stimulation, and also be helpful for many psychological diseases.

DISADVANTAGES

More dependent upon the computer systems.

Others may use technical knowledge against us.

Computer viruses will pose an increasingly critical threat.

The real threat, however, is the fear that people will have of new technologies.

CONCLUSION

P.Sai kiran T.Vinay Kumar

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