The cat is out of the bag: cortical simulations with 10^9 neurons, 10^13 synapses
November 18, 2009 | Source: KurzweilAI
presented by IBM and LLNL researchers today at the SC09 Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing in Portland.
Results of massively parallel cortical simulations of a cat cortex, with 1.5 billion neurons and 9 trillion synapses, running on Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Dawn Blue Gene/P supercomputer, will be “The simulations, which incorporate phenomenological spiking neurons, individual learning synapses, axonal delays, and dynamic synaptic channels, exceed the scale of the cat cortex, marking the dawn of a new era in the scale of cortical simulations,” according to the ACM proceedings abstract.
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