![]() ![]() Images courtesy of Forschungszentrum Juelich. This makes it an ideal match for Jülich’s JURON supercomputer, which is stocked with NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerators that offer the power to quickly solve simultaneous registrations. They do this by analyzing thousands of ultrathin histological brain slices using microscopes and advanced image analysis methods - and then reconstructing these slices into a 3D computer model.²Īnalyzing and registering high-resolution 2D image data into a 3D reconstruction is very data- and compute-intensive. To map something so complicated, scientists at the Jülich Research Center (Forschungszentrum Jülich), in Germany, are developing a 3D multi-modal model of the human brain. That’s because the human brain, with about 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections, is one of the most complex systems known to man. ![]() To do so, they’re going to need a good map. Created in 2013 by the European Commission, the project’s aims include gathering, organizing and disseminating data describing the brain and its diseases, and simulating the brain itself.¹ The Human Brain Project has ambitions to advance brain research, cognitive neuroscience and other brain-inspired sciences like few other projects before it.
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