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MareNostrum is the best known supercomputer BSC. It was installed in 2004 and has been updating its ability, through its third version, which allows one quadrillion operations per second (capacity exceeding 1 Petaflop / s).
Since 2004, MareNostrum has served more than 2,000 scientific research projects that require high technical capacity calculation and data processing. It’s 36 most powerful supercomputer in the world and 12th in Europe, according to the ranking Top 500 MareNostrum has been manufactured by the company IBM iDataPlex technology.
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MareNostrum located in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), run programming models that simulate brain neurons to map the human brain , or Human Brain macro project that launched in March EE. UU.

The Human Brain Project (HBP) project is considered the world’s most ambitious neuroscientist with an investment of 1,200 million euros. This Monday was held an initial meeting in Lausanne (Switzerland), which was attended by 135 European research centers, including the Barcelona Supercomputing Center .

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responsible for the BSC, the challenge of this larger project funded by the European Union is to understand and simulate the functioning of the human brain in its different layers , from the genome and cellular levels to neurons, circuits, brain regions and eventually the entire brain.

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provide two programming models developed, ‘OmpSs’ and ‘COMPSS ‘. Be used for large simulations which is scheduled in the project can run on supercomputers Europeans involved in the project and coordinate with them.

The creators of these programs have shown that the model ‘ OmpSs ‘ be used to optimize the efficiency of the simulations and the’ COMPSS ‘ be used primarily to coordinate and compare different levels simulation of the project .

The latter is responsible for carrying out the ‘interactive supercomputing’, ie give necessary support to the multiple simulations to solve a complex problem can interact and share data.

further role to be the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in the Human Brain Project will be to provide training and support activities for seasoned researchers in the use of supercomputers. So offers information on how they have to program their applications .

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Five researchers and experts in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center lead different parts of the Human Brain Project , including the director of Computer Science, Jesus Labarta and expert researcher in programming models, Rosa Maria Badia .

Operations also director and head of MareNostrum, Sergi Girona, the MareNostrum systems chief, Javier Bartolomé, and researcher Alex Ramirez, who is the project manager for Mont-Blanc develop low-power computers for use in the project .

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According to scientists, have a thorough understanding of how the human brain works is key to the development of new tools for treat neurological diseases and create new information technology .

So the Human Brain Project implementation includes six dedicated research platforms neuroinformatics, brain simulation, high performance computing, medical informatics, neuro-robotics and neuromorphic computing.

During the next 30 months, scientists will implement and test these platforms and expect 2016 are ready to be used in the project , which, among other things, aims to eventually develop chips that function as human neural networks and creating technologies inspired by the functioning of the brain and integrate them into robots that are able to learn.