To handle
large amounts of data from detailed brain models used in the Blue Brain Project
and the Human Brain Project, IBM Research, EPFL, and ETH Zürich are
collaborating on a new hybrid memory strategy for supercomputers.
Given the
roughly 70 million neurons in the brain of a mouse, a huge amount of data needs
to be accessed for the simulation to run efficiently.
“Data-intensive
research has supercomputer requirements that go well beyond high computational
power,” says EPFL professor Felix Schürmann of the Blue Brain Project in
Lausanne. “Here, we investigate different types of memory and how it is used,
which is crucial to build detailed models of the brain. But the applications
for this technology are much broader.”
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