Supercomputer as Brain

Obama Wants Supercomputer That Can Mimic Brain

A supercomputer so advanced that it could replicate the workings of the human brain is planned by the US government

Sky News | July 30, 2015

US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to create the world's first exaflop supercomputer.

Source: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/vice/viceArticle/index/category/tech/Article_page/25

The machine would be more than 30 times faster than today's fastest supercomputer, reaching exascale speeds which are defined as a billion billion calculations per second.

Source: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/155941-supercomputing-director-bets-2000-that-we-wont-have-exascale-computing-by-2020

<more at http://news.sky.com/story/1527630/obama-wants-supercomputer-that-can-mimic-brain; related links: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/for-one-second-a-supercomputer-mimicked-the-human-brain (For One Second, a Supercomputer Mimicked the Human Brain. August 7, 2013) and http://www.ibtimes.com/obama-exascale-supercomputer-would-be-worlds-fastest-computer-could-mimic-human-brain-2031566 (Obama Exascale Supercomputer Would Be World's Fastest Computer, Could Mimic Human Brain. July 30, 2013)>