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講演題目

Toward a human-scale whole-brain simulation on the Fugaku computer

詳細
開催日 2019年11月11日(月)
開催時間 14:20 - 15:00
開催都市 兵庫県神戸市
場所

R-CCS 6階講堂

使用言語 発表・スライド共に英語
登壇者

五十嵐 潤

情報システム本部 計算工学応用開発ユニット

写真:五十嵐 潤

講演要旨

The human brain is estimated to include about 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections. A whole-brain simulation helps us to investigate all interactions between neurons for elucidating brain function and disease. However, a human-scale whole-brain simulation has not been realized due to the lack of sufficient computational resources in the current supercomputers and experimental data for modeling.
In the project of Exploratory Challenge on post-K computer #4-1, to realize human-scale whole-brain simulation on the Fugaku computer, we have been constructing a mammalian whole-brain model consisting of the cerebral cortex, thalamus, cerebellum, and basal ganglia using NEST simulator, and developing an in-house simulator specialized for the whole brain-simulation on the next-generation supercomputers.
In the first part of the presentation, we are going to introduce simulation studies on modulation of a network state by a hierarchical inhibitory circuitry in the primary motor cortex, and neural responses to different spatial size signals in the primary somatosensory cortex. In the second part, we are going to present studies on one-third of human-scale cortical simulation and a full of human-scale cerebellar simulation on the K computer. Finally, we are going to present our future perspective of large-scale brain simulations on Fugaku computer based on the current result in our project.

(2019年11月7日)