Trade.Information

Details of Blue brain: corteccia electronic

Within next the two years it will be assisted to the birth of the most powerful calculating never realized. Already christened Blue Brain, retort is an ambitious plan of neuroscientifica search lanciat from the Ecole Polytecnique Fédérale de Lausanne in order to obtain one software of the neocorteccia human. The objective is to faithfully simulate the part of our brain where, second the studies more put into effect them, reside the most fundamental cognitive functions.

The plan Blue Brain, based on the Blue architecture Gene IBM, will serve for giving answer to unsolved questions that torment the scientists from generations: from where they have really origin disturbs like autismo, depression and schizophrenia? How work exactly memory and thought? The incredible power of calculation offered from Blue Brain, par to 22,8 teraflops, guarantees Charles Peck, investigator IBM, will be able to succeed to reveal these mysteries.

The Swiss technicians and Americans will realize a version electronic of the neocorticali columns, groups of neurons that constitute the fundamental gears of our more important organ. These true and own circuits, great hardly some millimeter, represent "the fundamental units of the connecting woven one to the inside of the brain".

The director of the Institute for the Neuroscienze di Losanna, Henry Markram, has declared in an interview to Newscientist that using supercomputers IBM will be possible to study with precision the way in which the neurons they interact, is connected and lived making to be born the spark of the cognitive conscience. The simulation of the neocorteccia is only the first step towards the creation of a completely electronic brain: the second phase of the ambitious plan Blue Brain is to supply a system for the dynamics evolution and the duplication of groups of neurons, until "mappare" all progressively the several cerebral regions.