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SHARIQ PARWEZ
140970015 | 2nd Year, 3rd Sem | Aug
22 2015
Department of Computer
Applications,
Manipal Institute of Technology,
Manipal

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INTRODUCTI
ON

ADVANTAGES &
DISADVANTAGES

COMPARISON OF
PARALLEL
TECHNOLOGIES

CONCLUSION

OBJECTIVE
REFERENCES
METHODOLOGY
MCQs

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st valuable
of God. The
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destroyed aof a brain when the b the
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Is

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TION
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IBM is no
w developin
g a virtual
known as th
brain
e BLUE BRA
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the worlds f
rst virtual b
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Within 3
0 years, we
will be able
ourselves in
to scan
to the comp
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WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN

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as brain.
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eep things
in memory
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Comparison of Parallel Technologies

IBM, in partnership with scientists at Switzerland's Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's (EPFL) Brain and
Mind Institute is simulating the brain's biological systems
and output the data as a working 3-dimensional model
that will recreate the high-speed electro-chemical
interactions that take place within the brain's interior.

COMP
ARISO
N OF
PARA
LLEL
T ECH
NOLO
GIES

Researchers at Microsoft's Media Presence

Lab are developing a "virtual brain," a PCbased database that holds a record of an
individual's complete life experience.
Called MyLifeBits, the project aims to make
this database of human memories
searchable in the manner of a conventional
search engine.
"By 2047, almost all information will be in
cyberspace including all knowledge and
creative works

OB
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Detailed, biologically accurate brain simulations
offer the opportunity to answer some fundamental
questions about the brain that cannot be addressed
with any current experimental or theoretical
approaches.

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Providing a circuit design platform

Simulating disease and developing treatments
Revealing functional diversity

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METHO
The human ability to feel, interpret and even see is
controlled, in computer like calculations, by the magical
nervous system. Yes, the nervous system is quite like
magic because we can't see it, but its working through
electric impulses through your body.
To understand this system, one has to know the three
simple functions
that it puts into action: sensory input, integration,
motor output.

M ET H O
DOLOG
Y

FUNCTIONING OF BRAIN
Sensory Input: Receiving input such as
sound, image, etc. through sensory cell.
Interpretation: Interpretation of the
received input by the brain by defining
states of neurons in the brain.
Motor Output: Receiving of electric
responses from the brain to perform any
action.

BRAIN SIMULATION
NATURAL BRAIN

M ET H O
DOLOG
Y

INPUT
Through the natural neurons

SIMULATED BRAIN

INPUT
Through the silicon chip or
artificial neurons

INTERPRETATION
INTERPRETATION
By diferent states of the neurons By a set of bits in the set of
in the brain
register
OUTPUT
Through the natural neurons.

OUTPUT
Through the silicon chip .

MEMORY
Through permanent states of
neurons

MEMORY
Through Secondary memory

PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and logical

PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and logical

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M ET H O
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M ET H O
DOLOG
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M ET H O
DOLOG
Y

COMPUTER HARDWARE /
SUPERCOMPUTER
The primary machine used by the Blue Brain
Project is aBlue Genesupercomputer built by
IBM. This is where the name "Blue Brain"
originates from.
Blue Gene/P technical specifications:
4,096 quad-core nodes (16,384 cores in
total)
Each core is aPowerPC 450, 850 MHz
Total: 56 teraflops, 16 terabytes of memory
1 PB of disk space, GPFS parallel file system

ADV
ANT
AGE
S

Remembering things without any effort.

Making decision without the presence of a
person.
Using intelligence of a person after the
death.
Understanding the activities of animals.
Allowing the deaf to hear via direct nerve
stimulation.

 We become dependent upon the

computer systems.

The real threat, however, is the fear that

people will have of new technologies.
That fear may culminate in a large
resistance. Clear evidence of this type of
fear is found today with respect to

S
NTAGE

Others may use technical knowledge

against us.

A
DISADV

There are many new dangers these

technologies will open. We will be
susceptible to new forms of harm.

CONCLUSION
We will be able to transfer ourselves into
computers at some point. Most
arguments against this outcome are
seemingly easy to circumvent. They are
either simple minded, or simply require
further time for technology to increase.
Blue brain will allow us to challenge the
foundations of our understanding of
intelligence and generate new theories of
consciousness.

S
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N
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R
REFE
[1]Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,
2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International
Conference of the IEEE
[2]Henry Markram, The Blue Brain Project, Nature
Reviews Neuroscience 2006 February.
[3]Blue Gene: http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene
[4]The Blue Brain Project:
http://bluebrainproject.epfl.ch

MCQ
Which of the following is developing the first
virtual brain, BLUE BRAIN ?
A) Microsoft
C) Google

B) IBM
D) HP

MCQ
We are likely to see BLUE BRAIN, within
A) 10 years
C) 30 years

B) 5 years
D) 40 years

MCQ
Project that aims to make this database of
human memories searchable in the manner of a
conventional search engine.
A) MyLifeBits
C) MyLifeMemory
MyLifeSearch

B) MyLifeBytes
D)

MCQ
The uploading is possible by the use of small
robots known as the?
A) Nanobots
C) Artificial Neurons

B) Microbots
D) Tinybots

MCQ
The primary machine used by the Blue Brain
Project is
A) BlueGene
C) DEEP

B) JoQueen
D) None