FZJ and KIT involved in Human Brain Project
The European Commission has officially announced the selection of the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of its two FET Flagship projects. The new project will federate European efforts to address one of the greatest challenges of modern science: understanding the human brain.
The goal of the Human Brain Project is to pull together all the existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. The models offer the prospect of a new understanding of the human brain and its diseases and of completely new computing and robotic technologies. More than 80 European and international research institutions cooperate in this project, among these also SCC and FZJ. SCC will implement cloud interfaces contributing to a smooth access to the distributed high performance computers. FZJ will provide its expertise especially in the structure and function of the brain as well as in high performance computing and simulation. Among others the future "human brain supercomputer" is to be constructed at JSC by 2020.
Contact: Marcus Hardt, SCC; Boris Orth, JSC
The goal of the Human Brain Project is to pull together all the existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. The models offer the prospect of a new understanding of the human brain and its diseases and of completely new computing and robotic technologies. More than 80 European and international research institutions cooperate in this project, among these also SCC and FZJ. SCC will implement cloud interfaces contributing to a smooth access to the distributed high performance computers. FZJ will provide its expertise especially in the structure and function of the brain as well as in high performance computing and simulation. Among others the future "human brain supercomputer" is to be constructed at JSC by 2020.
Contact: Marcus Hardt, SCC; Boris Orth, JSC