On Oct 7, a sex act of 135 researchers from countries participating in the Homo Brain Send off took place in Switzerland . With a budget of € 1.19 billion, it is designed for ten geezerhood and is the largest and most ambitious project to feign the human brain.

The brain consists of more or less 100 one million million neurons and 100 jillio synaptic connections. To simulate such a nervous mesh, large ironware resources are needed, which requires the combined efforts of scientists from different countries.

Project financial support has been approvedThe European Commission in February this twelvemonth. In the newsworthiness on Habré, it was reportable then that the goal of the project was to create a single open political program for experiments with simulating the functions of the human mentality, a single spread ou fabric. It will be likely to develop new reckoner models of emulation and test new methods of treating diseases.

Goals and objectives of the Human Brain Project

The Anthropoid Brain Project should get a standard platform for researchers, which will accumulate experimental information from various sources. The project involves 130 academic institutions from Europe, equally fortunate as individual search groups from the United States, Israel and other countries. The coordination of the cast is entrusted to the Lausanne Federal Polytechnic Train (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland.

The initial "overclocking" phase will adopt 2.5 years, it officially started on October 7, 2013. During this clock time, scientists will be meshed in the installation and testing of hardware and software systems for brain pretending. By 2016, they should be ready for work and open to all researchers at the Anthropomorphic Brain Project.

For example, the following are illustrations of few experiments in the field of neurobiology from various scientific groups active in the Human Genius Project.

A neuromorphic chip containing 384 "neurons" and 100,000 "synapses" works about 100 thousand times faster than a biological counterpart. Perhaps such microcircuits will suit the basis of the future supercomputer. The chip was designed by specialists from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (© Heidelberg University).

Intent of a neuromorphic chip (© Heidelberg University).

The SpiNNaker board with 48 nodes and 864 Weapon system processor cores is capable of real-clock time computing the model of processes occurring in the bee's mentality. The system is scalable, you can connect multiple SpiNNaker boards in collaboration. In the near future, the system will be able to simulate 1% of the human brain. (© University of Manchester).