Thanks to significant advances of some of the world’s most capable supercomputers, researchers at the Jülich Research C…
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Thanks to significant advances of some of the world’s most capable supercomputers, researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are setting their sights at an extremely ambitious goal: a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain. Previous attempts dating back a decade, like the Human Brain Project, fell largely flat, despite considerable government funding. But as New Scientist reports, the Jülich researchers think they can push things forward. The idea is to bring together…
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