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[bascule]

http://www.ad.com/ccortex.asp?id=1

Artificial Development is building CCortex, a massive spiking neural network simulation of the human cortex and peripheral systems. Upon completion, CCortex will represent up to 20 billion neurons and 20 trillion connections, achieving a level of complexity that rivals the mammalian brain, and making it the largest, most biologically realistic neural network ever built. The system is up to 10,000 times larger than any previous attempt to replicate primary characteristics of human intelligence.

CCortex employs a layered distribution of neural nets and detailed synaptic interconnections, closely emulating specialized regions of the human cortex, basal ganglia, thalamus and hippocampus. CCortex also extends the classical neural network paradigm of Hebbian connectivity to include temporal, analog representations of neuron spiking, enabling dynamic, real-time communication between neuron populations.

CCortex runs on a high-performance, parallel supercomputer cluster composed of 500 nodes and 1,000 processors, 1 terabyte of RAM, and 200 terabytes of storage. CCortex is expected to reach a theoretical peak performance of 4,800 Gflops, placing it in the top 20 fastest computers in the world. The neurological data that drives the CCortex simulation is a unique synthesis of multiple Artificial Development research projects, including the Cortical DB and the NanoAtlas

[JonesGuy]

Sweet Cripes. Check out their website. I have no idea how they could possibly have the man-hours to do something like this ... plus the cross-specialization required. I can only imagine. While you're at the website, checkout the corticalDB entry too.

[Richard Leis]

Great link. Thank you. Another interesting company to watch. I kept waiting to see the disclaimer that the site was owned by a movie studio, but it appears to be legit. It was also nice to see how well represented women are in the company.