Anonymous said...
IBM uses Blue Gene supercomputer to model neural behavior of a cat brain.
Of all the things DOE could do with that class of computer, you would think that someone would come up with a better project than that.
November 18, 2009 7:16 PM
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Next step is to drop off a few nodes from the cluster, pull half the disks, pull half the memory and then use that machine to simulate the thinking process of NNSA.
That cat research actually sounds very interesting and valid to me. I'm not being sarcastic. Most animal research is done with the ultimate goal of better understanding human bodies and minds. As long as we draw the ethical line at establishing gold standards with human vivisection and experimentation, we're gonna have to invest our resources in investigating our smaller mammalian friends.
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