Speaker
Anders Lansner
(KTH/CSC)
Description
Brain science is a rapidly growing application area for
supercomputers with a main focus on data analysis of large
volumes of data generated from measurements on the
brain and on simulations of brain dynamics. The talk will
mostly dwell on the latter aspect, first describing briefly
some structural and functional aspects of the brain and
standard methodology used in computational neuroscience
to simulate activity of neurons and networks. Then follows
some examples from our own investigations of perceptual
and memory functions of the brain using simulation models
with varying degrees of biophysical detail. Finally, our
experience from performing very large-scale simulations and
scaling of models to actual brain size on the Blue Gene
architecture will be described.
