IBM researches simulate half a "mouse brain" on supercomputer

[MasterMike]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6600965.stm

US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.

The scientists ran a "cortical simulator" that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L supercomputer.

In other smaller simulations the researchers say they have seen characteristics of thought patterns observed in real mouse brains.

Now the team is tuning the simulation to make it run faster and to make it more like a real mouse brain.

Quite astonishing. I wonder where this technology might eventually lead?