IBM simulates 530 billon neurons, 100 trillion synapses on supercomputer | KurzweilAI

IBM simulates 530 billon neurons, 100 trillion synapses on supercomputer | KurzweilAI: IBM and LBNL achieved an unprecedented scale of 2.084 billion neurosynaptic cores* containing 53×1010  (530 billion) neurons and 1.37×1014 (100 trillion) synapses running only 1542 times slower than real time.

“We have not built a biologically realistic simulation of the complete human brain,” explains an abstract....  “Computation (‘neurons’), memory (‘synapses’), and communication (‘axons,’ ‘dendrites’) are mathematically abstracted away from biological detail toward engineering goals of maximizing function (utility, applications) and minimizing cost (power, area, delay) and design complexity of hardware implementation.”