The Blue Brain Project aims to recreate the human brain through detailed computer simulation. It involves scanning brain tissue to collect data on neuron types and properties, which are then used to build biologically realistic models of neurons and networks. These simulations are run on IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer. The goal is to gain a complete understanding of the brain and enable faster treatment development for brain diseases. One day, it may be possible to upload a person's connectome data into a virtual brain to preserve their intelligence even after death.

1. BLUE BRAIN
TECHNOLOGY
Shivam Pratap Singh
B.Tech. Semester VII
Computer Engineering

2. CONTENTS
 Introduction
 What is blue brain
 What is virtual brain
 Function of natural brain
 Brain simulation
 Current research work
 Advantages
 Disadvantage
 Hardware and software
requirement
 Conclusion

3. HISTORY
The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse engineer the human
brain and recreate it at the cellular level inside a computer simulation.
The project was founded in May 2005 by Henry Markram at
the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Goals of the project are to gain a
complete understanding of the brain and to enable better and faster
development of brain disease treatments.
The research involves studying slices of living brain tissue using
microscopes and patch clampelectrodes. Data is collected about 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
simulation software is based around Michael Hines's NEURON,
together with other custom-built components.

4. WHAT IS IT?
 HUMAN BRAIN, the most valuable creation of God. The man is called
intelligent because of the brain. But we loss the knowledge of a brain
when the body is destroyed after the death .
 “BLUE BRAIN”- The name of the world’s first virtual brain. That means a
machine that can function as human brain.
 Is it really possible to create a human brain?

5. WHAT IS BLUE BRAIN?
The IBM is now developing a virtual brain known as the BLUE BRAIN.
 It would be the worlds first virtual brain.
 Within 30 years, we will be able to scan ourselves into the computers
 So, even after the death of a person we will not loose the knowledge,
intelligence, personalities, feelings and memories of that man that can be
used for the development of the human society.

6. WHAT IS VIRTUAL BRAIN?
A machine that can function as brain
It can take decision.
It can think.
It can response.
It can keep things in memory.
It also has feelings and emotions.

7. WHY WE NEED VIRTUAL BRAIN
To upload contents of the natural brain into it
To keep the intelligence , knowledge and skill of any person for ever
.
To remember things without any effort .

8. FUNCTIONING OF BRAIN
 Sensory Input :-
Receiving input such as sound
,image, etc through sensory cell .
 . Interpretation
Interpretation of the received input
by the brain by defining states of
neurons in the brain.
 Motor Output.
Receiving of electric responses
from the brain to perform any
action .

9. NATURAL BRAIN VS BLUE
BRAIN
INPUT
Through the natural
neurons
INTERPRETATION
By different states of the
neurons in the brain.
INPUT
Through the silicon chip or
artificial sensory cells
INTERPRETATION
By a set of bits in the set of
register

10. DIFFERENCE
OUTPUT
Through the natural cells.
PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculations
MEMORY
Through permanent states of
neurons
OUTPUT
Through the silicon chip.
PROCESSING
Through arithmetic and
logical calculation and
artificial intelligence
MEMORY
Through Secondary memory

11. UPLOADING HUMAN BRAIN

12. UPLOADING
 The uploading is possible by the
use of small robots known as the
NANOBOTS.
 These robots are small enough to
travel through out our circulatory
system.
 Traveling into the spine and brain,
they will be able to monitor the
activity and structure of our central
nervous system.
 They will be able to provide an
interface with computer while we
still reside in our biological form.

13. UPLOADING
 Nanobots could also carefully scan the
structure of our brain, providing a complete
readout of the connection.
 This information, when entered into a
computer, could then continue to function as
us.
 Thus the data stored in the entire brain will
be uploaded into the computer.

14. BLUE GENE/P TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS:
>4,096 quad-core nodes (16,384 cores
in total)
>Each core is a PowerPC 450, 850 MHz
Total: 56 teraflops, 16 terabytes of
memory
>4 racks, one row, wired as a 16x16x16
3D torus
>1 PB of disk space, GPFS parallel file
system
>Operating system: Linux SuSE SLES 10
Public
frontend: bluegene.epfl.ch and processin

15. EXAMPLE OF BLUE BRAIN

16. >A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF
UTILIZATION OF BLUE BRAIN IS THE
CASE “SHORT TERM MEMORY”.
>IN SOME MOVIES WE MIGHT HAVE
NOTICED THAT A PERSON MIGHT BE
HAVING SHORT TERM MEMORIES.
 A another situation is that
when a person gets older,
then he starts forgetting or
takes a bit more time to
recognize to a person.
 For the above reason we
need a blue brain.

17. OBJECTIVE
 The project will search for
insights into how human
beings think and remember.
 Scientists think that blue
brain could also help to
cure the Parkinson’s
disease.
 The brain rewiring itself
every moment of its
existence. If the scientists
can crack open the secret
of how and why the brain
does it, the knowledge
could lead to new breed of
supercomputer.

18. RESEARCH WORK
IBM developing the “Blue
brain”
IBM, in partnership with
scientists at Switzerland’s
Ecole Polytechnique Federale
De Lausanne’s(EPFL) Brain
and Mind Institute will begin
simulating the brain’s
biological systems.

19. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
REQUIREMENT
 Memory with a very large storing capacity(256MB to 512MB memory per processor).
 Processor with a very high processing power.
 a program to convert the electric impulses from the brain to input signal, which is
to be received by the computer and vice versa.
 Linux and C++ software.
 100 kilowatts power consumption.
 very powerful Nanobots to act as the interface between the natural brain and the
computer.

20. ADVANTAGE
S
 Remembering things without any
effort.
 Making decision without the
presence of a person.
 Using intelligence of a person after
the death.
 Understanding the activities of
animals .
 Advantageous to cure diff. brain
disease.
 Allowing the deaf to hear via
direct nerve stimulation.
DISADVANTAG
ES
 We become dependent upon
the computer .
 Othersmay use technical
knowledge against us.
 Computer viruses will pose an
increasingly critical threat.
 A very costly procedure of
regaining the memory back.

21. SOURCES
•ieeexplore.ieee.org
•Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT), 2014 Fourth
International Conference-ieeeexplore.ieee.org
•www.engineersgarage.com
•code.google.com
•en.wikipedia.org

22. THANK YOU.
Name: Shivam Pratap
Singh
Class: B.Tech. Semester
VII
Course: Computer
Engineering
PRN: 1100000093
Roll No.: 70