Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors | Y Recombinator

		Simulating 1 second of real brain activity takes 40 minutes and 83K processors (gigaom.com)
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archgoon Jan 12, 2014 | on: Supercomputer takes 40 minutes to simulate 1 second of a… | context

Better writeup (cites sources!) and discussion from 5 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157157

And the Riken Lab press release

http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/

This is a link to the poster presentation. There does not seem to be a full paper associated with this research yet.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/14/S1/P163

The NEST simulator (The researchers Morrison and Diesman are integral people on this project):

http://www.nest-initiative.org/index.php/Software:About_NEST