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2015
Supercomputing for the European Human Brain Project
Supercomputing for the European Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project, one of two so-called flagship projects in Europe, is a huge collaborative effort of more than 100 partner institutions with a ten-year perspective to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece. The HBP will create multi-scale models of the mouse and the human brain and will prepa...
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Personal Name(s): | Lippert, Thomas (Corresponding Author) |
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Contributing Institute: |
Jülich Supercomputing Center; JSC |
Published in: | 2015 |
Imprint: |
2015
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Conference: | International Supercomputing Conference in Mexico, Mexico City (Mexico), 2015-03-09 - 2015-03-13 |
Document Type: |
Conference Presentation |
Research Program: |
The Human Brain Project Supercomputer Facility |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
The Human Brain Project, one of two so-called flagship projects in Europe, is a huge collaborative effort of more than 100 partner institutions with a ten-year perspective to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece. The HBP will create multi-scale models of the mouse and the human brain and will prepare a supercomputer-based simulation platform, integrating and federating giant amounts of existing data, complemented by the creation of new information and knowledge about the human brain. A substantial impact of the HBP on our understanding of the human brain and its diseases as well as on novel brain-inspired computing technologies is expected.The creation of an HPC Platform will be one of the central elements of the project. Including major European supercomputing centres like the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, the Italian CINECA, the Swiss CSCS and Jülich Supercomputing Centre as well as several universities, its mission is to build, integrate and operate the hardware, network and software components of the supercomputing and big data infrastructures from cell to full-scale interactive brain simulations, together with data management, processing and visualization.In my talk, I am going to discuss the requirements of the HBP on HPC hardware and software technology. These requirements follow the multi-scale approach of the HBP to decode the brain and recreate it virtually. On the cellular level, hardware-software architectures for quantum mechanical ab-initio molecular dynamics methods and for classical molecular dynamics methods will be included in the platform. On the level of the full-scale brain simulation, on the one hand, a development system to “build” the brain by integration of all accessible data on a worldwide scale as well as for tests and evaluation of the brain software is foreseen. On the other hand, a system that acts as the central brain simulation facility, eventually allowing for interactive simulation and visualization of the entire human brain will be created. Additionally, the brain needs to be equipped with the proper sensory environment, a body, provided by virtual robotics codes developed on a suitable hardware system. It is expected that the human brain project can trigger innovative IT solutions for future exascale architectures permitting hierarchical memory structures and interactive operation. What is more, novel digital/analog systems called “neuromorphic devices” are a major target of HBP’s research. |