Which one is smarter? A mouse or a supercomputer? I know, the answer dependents on how to define and measure the smartness, but here is an interesting find - researchers at IBM and the University of Nevada have been using IBM's BlueGene L supercomputer (4,096 processors, each using 256MB of RAM) trying to simulate a mouse brain, or more precisely, a mouse-thought. Even with this huge processing power, researcher only managed to run the supercomputer at a speed 10 times slower than real time, and only for 10 seconds - the equivalent of only 1 second of mouse-thought. It turned out that from neurology point of view (# of neurons, # of synapses per neuron, and how fast neuron communicates), mice are in fact a very intelligent life form.
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5/03/2007
Mouse vs. Supercomputer
Which one is smarter? A mouse or a supercomputer? I know, the answer dependents on how to define and measure the smartness, but here is an interesting find - researchers at IBM and the University of Nevada have been using IBM's BlueGene L supercomputer (4,096 processors, each using 256MB of RAM) trying to simulate a mouse brain, or more precisely, a mouse-thought. Even with this huge processing power, researcher only managed to run the supercomputer at a speed 10 times slower than real time, and only for 10 seconds - the equivalent of only 1 second of mouse-thought. It turned out that from neurology point of view (# of neurons, # of synapses per neuron, and how fast neuron communicates), mice are in fact a very intelligent life form.
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