Institute of Engineering &

Technology, Alwar

Presented by: Priyanka Vijay

Roll no: 12EIACS067

Introduction

What is blue brain?

Virtual brain

Why we need virtual brain?

Functionality of brain

Brain simulation

Current research work

Advantages

Disadvantages

Hardware and software requirements

Application of blue brain

conclusion

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 .

“BLUE BRAIN”- The name of the world’s first virtual brain. That means a machine that can function as human brain.

Is it really possible to create a human brain?

“YES", The IBM is now developing a virtual brain known as the BLUE BRAIN.

INTRODUCTION

Blue brain is a simple chip that can be

installed into the human brain for which the

short term memory and volatile memory at

the old age can be avoided.

A very good example of utilization of blue

brain is the case "short term memory".

Another situation is that when a person gets

older, then he starts forgetting or takes a bit

more time to recognize to a person.

Virtual brain is an artificial brain, which does not

actually the natural brain, but can act as the

brain.

It can think like brain, take decisions based on

the past experience, and response as the natural

brain can.

It is possible by using a super computer, with a

huge amount of storage capacity, processing

power and an interface between the human

brain and this artificial one .

Through this interface the data stored in the

natural brain can be uploaded into the computer.

• Intelligence ,Knowledge and skill of a person can

be made eternal.

• We can upload the contents of natural brain into

it.

• Things can be made easy as everything is

automated.

• We will be able to scan ourselves into the

computers.

Sensory Input :-

Receiving input such as sound ,image, etcthrough 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 .

Once the neural microcircuit is built, the excitingwork of making the circuit function can begin.

All the 8192 processors of the Blue Gene arepressed into service, in a massively parallelcomputation solving the complex mathematicalequations that govern the electrical activity ineach neuron when a stimulus is applied.

As the electrical impulse travels from neuron toneuron, the results are communicated via inter-processor communication (MPI).

Currently, the time required to simulate thecircuit is about two orders of magnitude largerthan the actual biological time simulated.

The Blue Brain team is working to streamline thecomputation so that the circuit can function in realtime - meaning that 1 second of activity can bemodeled in one second

Now, there is no doubt that the virtual brain is

similar to us but…

…the question is how human brain will be

uploaded into it????

Let’s take a look :)

• The uploading is possible by the use of small robots known as the nanobots.

• These robots are small enough to travel throughout our circulatory system

• Traveling into the spine and brain, they will be able to monitor the activity and structure of our central nervous system

• They will be able to provide an interface withcomputer while we still reside in our biologicalform

• 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 us.

• Thus the data stored in the entire brain will be uploaded into the computer

IBM, is developing the blue brain project.

Blue brain was found in may 2005 by Henry Markaram who is founder and director of EPFL and blue brain project.

IBM, in partnership with scientists at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne’s(EPFL) Brain and Mind Institute will begin simulating the brain’s biological systems.

The original group of IBM for research is of 13 leading institution of Europe.

• REMEMBRING 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 .

• Others may use technical knowledge

against us.

• Computer viruses will pose an

increasingly critical threat.

Humans are loose their brain power.

A super computer. (Blue Gene/L )

22.8 TFLOPS peak processing speed.

Processor with a very high processing power.

8,096 CPUs at 700 MHz (downgraded to handle massive

parallel processing).

256MB to 512MB memory per processor with a very

large storing capacity..

Linux and C++ software.

100 kilowatts power con

A very wide network.

Very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface

between the natural brain and the computer

Cracking the Neural Code

To develop a new breed of supercomputer

Understanding Neocortical Information

Processing

A Novel Tool for Drug Discovery for Brain

Disorders

A Global Facility

A Foundation for Whole Brain Simulations

A Foundation for Molecular Modelling of Brain

Function

We will be able to transfer ourselves intocomputers at some point.

It will bring both benefits and harm tohuman society .

Eventually aim of applying terrificcomputer power to the simulation of anentire brain.

Very soon this technology will be highlyaccepted whole over the world.

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