Tuesday, May 01, 2007

World's most powerful supercomputer = 1/2 mouse brain (almost)

I guess the blog site is still open.

According to the Top 500 list, the IBM Blue Gene/L is currently the world's fastest supercomputer
http://www.top500.org/lists/2006/11
Researchers recently ran a "cortical simulator" that was about as complex as 1/2 of a mouse brain. The simulation could only run for 10 seconds, and it was about 10x as slow as a real mouse brain.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7094

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