On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:05:01AM -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote: > I assumed you knew that the human brain has a volume of 1000 to 1500 cm^3. If > you divide this among 10^5 processors then each processor would simulate a > cube about 2 to 2.5 mm on a side with a surface area of about 25-35 mm^2. The
Do you think a beige box can simulate 10 mm^3 worth of human cortex? It too 4 kNode worth of a Blue Gene/L to render half a cartoon mouse at 1/10 realtime. And the simulation did exercise the interconnect. Which wasn't exactly Ethernet, you know. > little cubes only need to communicate with their 6 neighbors, so you can map > the simulation onto a hierarchical network where most of the communication is > local. Do you think Google wires their nodes in a 3d torus topology? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=8eb45b07
