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Mare Nostrum 3, a new supercomputer for Barcelona

Barcelona. (EFE). – The macroproject Human Brain , which will invest 1,200 million euros to imitate a human brain , use programming models created at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) with MareNostrum , which will execute simulations of brain neurons.

Human Brain Project (HBP), considered the most ambitious project in the world neuroscientist, has set in motion Monday with an initial meeting which was held in Lausanne (Switzerland), in the presence 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, regions brain and finally the entire brain.

OmpSs and COMPSS are the two programming models developed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-National Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), to be used for these simulations large supercomputers can run on the European participants in the project and coordinate with them.

The creators of these programs have advanced the OmpSs is used to optimize the efficiency of simulations and the COMPSS will be used primarily to coordinate and compare different levels of simulation project.

Specifically, the program COMPSS is responsible for carrying out the “interactive supercomputing “: provide the necessary support for the interaction of multiple simulations to solve a complex problem and share data.

MareNostrum , the emblem of Barcelona Supercomputing Center, center will also support activities and seasoned researchers training in the use of supercomputers to advise them on how they should schedule their applications.

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.

also the Director of Operations and Head of MareNostrum, Sergi Girona, Chief MareNostrum systems, Javier Bartolomé, and researcher Alex Ramirez, who is in charge of the Mont-Blanc project to develop low-power computers for use in the project.

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

So Human Brain Project includes the start-up of 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 to be ready for use in the project, which, among other things, aims to eventually develop chips that function as neural networks human and creating technologies inspired by the functioning of the brain and integrate them into robots that are able to learn.