A team of Japanese and German researchers have carried out the largest-ever simulation of neural activity in the human brain, and the numbers are both amazing and humbling.
The hardware necessary to simulate the activity of 1.73 billion nerve cells connected by 10.4 trillion synapses (just 1 pe...
http://gigaom.com/2013/08/02/simulating-1-second-of-real-brain-activity-takes-40-minutes-83k-processors/
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