{"id":178250,"date":"2023-12-14T03:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-preparing-to-turn-on-computer-intended-to-simulate-entire-human-brain"},"modified":"2023-12-14T03:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T09:22:25","slug":"scientists-preparing-to-turn-on-computer-intended-to-simulate-entire-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-preparing-to-turn-on-computer-intended-to-simulate-entire-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Preparing to Turn on Computer Intended to Simulate Entire Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-preparing-to-turn-on-computer-intended-to-simulate-entire-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Western Sydney University in Australia have teamed up with tech giants Intel and Dell to build a massive supercomputer intended to simulate neural networks at the scale of the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>They say the computer, dubbed DeepSouth, is capable of emulating networks of spiking neurons at a mind-melting 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, putting it on par with the estimated rate at which the human brain completes operations.<\/p>\n<p>The project was announced at this week\u2019s NeuroEng Workshop hosted by Western Sydney\u2019s International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS), a forum for luminaries in the field of computational neuroscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Western Sydney University in Australia have teamed up with tech giants Intel and Dell to build a massive supercomputer intended to simulate neural networks at the scale of the human brain. They say the computer, dubbed DeepSouth, is capable of emulating networks of spiking neurons at a mind-melting 228 trillion synaptic operations per [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}