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@INPROCEEDINGS{Lippert:189214,
      author       = {Lippert, Thomas},
      title        = {{S}upercomputing for the {E}uropean {H}uman {B}rain
                      {P}roject},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2015-02405},
      year         = {2015},
      abstract     = {The Human Brain Project, one of two so-called flagship
                      projects in Europe, is a huge collaborative effort of more
                      than 100 partner institutions with a ten-year perspective to
                      reconstruct the brain, piece by piece. The HBP will create
                      multi-scale models of the mouse and the human brain and will
                      prepare a supercomputer-based simulation platform,
                      integrating and federating giant amounts of existing data,
                      complemented by the creation of new information and
                      knowledge about the human brain. A substantial impact of the
                      HBP on our understanding of the human brain and its diseases
                      as well as on novel brain-inspired computing technologies is
                      expected.The creation of an HPC Platform will be one of the
                      central elements of the project. Including major European
                      supercomputing centres like the Barcelona Supercomputing
                      Centre, the Italian CINECA, the Swiss CSCS and Jülich
                      Supercomputing Centre as well as several universities, its
                      mission is to build, integrate and operate the hardware,
                      network and software components of the supercomputing and
                      big data infrastructures from cell to full-scale interactive
                      brain simulations, together with data management, processing
                      and visualization.In my talk, I am going to discuss the
                      requirements of the HBP on HPC hardware and software
                      technology. These requirements follow the multi-scale
                      approach of the HBP to decode the brain and recreate it
                      virtually. On the cellular level, hardware-software
                      architectures for quantum mechanical ab-initio molecular
                      dynamics methods and for classical molecular dynamics
                      methods will be included in the platform. On the level of
                      the full-scale brain simulation, on the one hand, a
                      development system to “build” the brain by integration
                      of all accessible data on a worldwide scale as well as for
                      tests and evaluation of the brain software is foreseen. On
                      the other hand, a system that acts as the central brain
                      simulation facility, eventually allowing for interactive
                      simulation and visualization of the entire human brain will
                      be created. Additionally, the brain needs to be equipped
                      with the proper sensory environment, a body, provided by
                      virtual robotics codes developed on a suitable hardware
                      system. It is expected that the human brain project can
                      trigger innovative IT solutions for future exascale
                      architectures permitting hierarchical memory structures and
                      interactive operation. What is more, novel digital/analog
                      systems called “neuromorphic devices” are a major target
                      of HBP’s research.},
      month         = {Mar},
      date          = {2015-03-09},
      organization  = {International Supercomputing
                       Conference in Mexico, Mexico City
                       (Mexico), 9 Mar 2015 - 13 Mar 2015},
      subtyp        = {Plenary/Keynote},
      cin          = {JSC},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
      pnm          = {513 - Supercomputer Facility (POF3-513) / HBP - The Human
                      Brain Project (604102)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-513 / G:(EU-Grant)604102},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/189214},
}