BLUE BRAIN

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SHARIQ PARWEZ 140970015 | 2nd Year, 3rd Sem |

Aug 22 2015

Department of Computer Applications,

Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal

OUTLINEINTRODUCTION

COMPARISON OF PARALLEL TECHNOLOGIES

OBJECTIVE

METHODOLOGY

ADVANTAGES &DISADVANTAGES

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

MCQ’s

INTRODUCTION

• Human brain, the most valuable creation of God. The man is called intelligent because of the brain. But we loss the knowledge of a brain when the body is destroyed after the death.

• If we can create a brain and upload the contents of natural brain into it?Is it really possible to create a human

brain?

• IBM is now developing a virtual brain known as the BLUE BRAIN.- It would be the worlds first virtual brain.

• Within 30 years, we will be able to scan ourselves into the computers

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• A machine that can function as brain.• It can take decision.• It can think.

• It can response.• It can keep things in memory.

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WHY WE NEED ‘BLUE BRAIN’ ?

• To upload contents of the natural

brain into it.

• To keep the intelligence, knowledge

and skill of any person for ever.

• To remember things without any

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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.

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Researchers at Microsoft's Media Presence Lab are developing a "virtual brain," a PC-based 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”

OBJECTIVEDetailed, 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.

• Providing a circuit design platform

• Simulating disease and developing treatments

• Revealing functional diversity

METHODOLOGYThe 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.

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.

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BRAIN SIMULATIONNATURAL BRAIN SIMULATED BRAIN

INPUTThrough the natural neurons

INPUTThrough the silicon chip or artificial neurons

INTERPRETATIONBy different states of the neurons in the brain

INTERPRETATIONBy a set of bits in the set of register

OUTPUTThrough the natural neurons.

OUTPUTThrough the silicon chip .

MEMORYThrough permanent states of neurons

MEMORYThrough Secondary memory

PROCESSINGThrough arithmetic and logical calculations

PROCESSINGThrough arithmetic and logical calculation and artificial intelligence

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UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN

• The uploading is possible by the use of small

robots known as the nanobots.• These robots are small enough to travel through

out our circulatory system.• They will be able to provide an interface with

computer that is as close as our mind can be

while we still reside in our biological form.

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UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN

• Nanobots could also carefully scan the

structure of our brain, providing a complete

readout of the connection.• This information, when entered into a

computer, could then continue to function as

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• Thus the data stored in the entire brain will be

uploaded into the computer.

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COMPUTER HARDWARE / SUPERCOMPUTER

• The primary machine used by the Blue Brain Project is a Blue Gene supercomputer 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 a PowerPC 450, 850 MHz Total: 56 teraflops, 16 terabytes of memory 1 PB of disk space, GPFS parallel file system Operating system: Linux SuSE SLES 10

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GES • 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

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• There are many new dangers these technologies will open. We will be susceptible to new forms of harm.

• We become dependent upon the computer systems.

• Others may use technical knowledge against us.

• 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 human cloning.

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.

REFERENCES[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) MicrosoftB) IBM

C) GoogleD) HP

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We are likely to see BLUE BRAIN, within

A) 10 yearsB) 5 years

C) 30 yearsD) 40 years

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Project that aims to make this database of human memories searchable in the manner of a conventional search engine.

A) MyLifeBits B) MyLifeBytes

C) MyLifeMemoryD) MyLifeSearch

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The uploading is possible by the use of small robots known as the?

A) NanobotsB) Microbots

C) Artificial Neurons D) Tinybots

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The primary machine used by the Blue Brain Project is

A) BlueGeneB) JoQueen

C) DEEPD) None