BLUE BRAIN TECHNOLOGY 1

Presented by :
1. B.Venkata Vamshidher Reddy
(18B81A04B7)

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 The goal of the Blue Brain Project is to build biologically detailed

digital reconstructions and simulations of the rodent, and ultimately
the human brain.
 The main motivations behind the blue brain technology
are treatment of brain disfunctioning, scientific curiosity about
consciousness and human mind, a bottom up approach towards
building thinking machine and databases of all neuroscientific
research results and related past stories.

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 Blue Brain is the name of the world's first virtual brain, a virtual machine that can think,
respond, take decision, and keep anything in the memory. This is similar to functioning of
biological human brain in terms of memory, feelings, emotions, and decision making. Data is
collected from all the many different neuron types. This data is used to build biologically
realistic models of neurons and networks of neurons in the cerebral cortex. The simulations
are carried out on a Blue Gene supercomputer built by IBM, hence the name "Blue Brain".
 The Blue Brain is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the
mammalian brain down to the molecular level. With the advancement of technology, the
ultimate source of information and discovery of the human brain should also be preserved. In
other words, a human does not live for Thousands of years but the information in his mind
could be saved and used for several thousands of years. So, even after the death of a person
we will not lose the knowledge, intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories of that
man and can be used for the development of the human society. The major motivations
behind the Blue Brain Technology are, brain disease treatments, curiosity about
consciousness and, a bottom-up approach towards building a thinking machine.
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 INTRODUCTION 4
 Blue brain is a machine that can function as a human brain.
 It is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down
to the molecular level.
 Blue brain is named with the colour blue because the virtual brain functions based on the super
computer “BLUE GENE”.
 This technology uses nanobots to meet the functions of human brain.

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Fig :- Blue gene supercomputer
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 WHY VIRTUAL BRAIN ? 5

 A human is always in need of intelligence and an intelligent brain. But it is lost along with the person
after his death.
• That’s where the virtual brain comes into the picture where the brain and its intelligence can be alive
after the death.

 We often face difficulties in remembering things.

• A virtual brain can take away the extra stress we face to remember things.
• It is a perfect technical solution to a very common human problem.

 It is expected that the blue brain will be able to give solutions such as the treatment of incurable brain
diseases.

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 FUNCTION OF A BLUE BRAIN: 6

Decision maker

Gives Response

Communicate

BLUE BRAIN

Think
Understand

Memory

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NATURAL BRAIN VS SIMULATED BRAIN

o INPUT o INPUT
Through the natural neurons Through the silicon chip or artificial
neurons
o INTERPRETATION o INTERPRETATION
By different states of the neurons in By a set of bits in the set of register.
the brain.
o OUTPUT o OUTPUT
Through the natural neurons Through the silicon chip
o PROCESSING o PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and logical Through arithmetic and logical
calculations calculation and artificial intelligence.
o MEMORY o MEMORY
Through permanent states of neurons Through secondary memory

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• The uploading of data from brain to

Nanobots –
Travel into spine computer is possible by the use of small
and Brain robots known as NANOBOTS.

• Small enough to travel throughout our

circulatory system.

• Will monitor activity of brain by travelling

Scan Neurons into the spine and brain.
get data via
Nanobots
• They provide an interface with computer.

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Components:

 Payload
 Micro camera
 Electrodes
 Lasers
 Ultra sonic signal generators
 Swimming tail
 Sensors

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REQUIREMENT
 HARDWARE:
 A Super computer (Blue Gene) built by IBM capable of processing 228 TFLOPS.
 8096 CPUs at 850MHz each of which can map one or two simulated brain neurons.
 Memory with large storing capacity (256 to 512 Mb per processor)
 Processor with a very high processing power.
 Very powerful Nanobots to interface between natural brain and Computer.

 SOFTWARE:
 Primary software used for neural simulations is called NEURON written in C,C++ and FORTRAN.

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Blue Gene\P specifications:

•4096 quad-core nodes.

•Power:
Each core is a power PC of 850MHz.

•Memory:
56 tera flops are used- 16 terabytes of
memory.

•Operating system:
Linux SUSE SLES 10.

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APPLICATIONS

 Gathering and Testing 100 Years of data.

 Cracking the Neural Code.

 Remember things without any effort.

 To store the intelligent person’s brain and use it’s IQ in research after the death.

 A foundation for whole Brain Simulations.

 To understand the activity of animals.

 Solution of short term memory and volatile memory at the old age.
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 Can remember things without any effort.

 Intelligence of a man can be used after his death.
 We could make use of the information of the brain that was uploaded into the computer and
use it to provide a solution to mental disorder.
 Decision can be made without the presence of a person.
 Help deaf people to hear via direct nerve simulation.
 Helps to solve many psychological diseases.
 Could boost study of animal behaviour.

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DISADVANTAGES

 Increases the dependency on computer systems.

 Computer viruses will pose an increasingly critical threat.

 Hackers may mislead the technical knowledge.

 Costly procedure of regaining the memory back.

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 It is both boon and bane to mankind.

 Able to transfer ourselves into computers at some point.

 The BBP, if implemented successfully, would indeed change

many things around us and it will boost the area of research conclusion
and technology.
CONCLUSI
 Certain research and development take decades or even
centuries to complete, so the knowledge and efforts of a
ON
scientist can be preserved and used further in his absence.

 It is not an easy task to replicate the convoluted brain

system into a computer. It is expected to deliver this project
by 2023.
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 In future this technology will be useful in diagnosis of

malfunction of human brain as well as development of
treatments for neurological disorders.
 Since this technology is useful to study the flow of the
signals transferred from brain to the sensory cell and FUTURE
from sensory cell to brain.
SCOPE

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REFERENCES

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[2] Nakul Ghimire, Mr. Fahad Iqbal, “Blue Brain”, International Journal of Computer
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April-June 2018.
[3] Siva Kumar Avula1, Vedrucha S Pakale2 and Sheetal V Kashid3, “Blue Brain - The
Future Generation”, International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering &
Management (IJAIEM), Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2020.

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