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Mr. Mickey vs Mr. Big Blue Gene

Wow! I absolutely adore this. Here comes my saviour, after a day when Bloomberg scared wits out of me saying computers will start trading.

In the contest between a super computer and a mouse, Mr. Stuart Little wins. A super computer cant beat a mouse! Huraah! Three cheers to Mr. Mickey!

Contestant Vitals:

In the blue corner to the right - Mr. Blue Gene - The SUPER computer

IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer contains 4,096 processors, each with 256MB of RAM. It crunches out 360 trillion floating point operations per second. That is Trillions dudes.

In the yellow corner to the left - Mr. Mouse Cheeselover - The CUTE little fella

The mouse cortex has roughly 8million neurons and 8,000 synapses per neuron, firing rate of 1Hz, the entire memory must be refreshed every second, each neuron must be updated at every simulation time step, and each neuron communicates to each of its targets at least once a second.

Result: Mr Mickey knocked out the Big Blue in 10secs flat.

Details: Even this huge processing effort (of computer) still only managed to run at a speed 10 times slower than real time, and only for 10 seconds - the equivalent of one second of mouse-thought.

Lest I be challenged next, the researchers say I have 100Billion neurons. Very surprising, my mom says it is basically empty.

:) Falkor


PS: The modelling is basically well.. just a model. All the neurons dont fire at the same time, as it is assumed here, that would be a travesty of inefficeint engineering and prodigious waste of energy. There are many more factors affecting the 'thought process'. Mr. Mickey cannot beat Mr. Blue at chess for example, unless of course he chews off the cables :))
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