https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project

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The REDACTED was a Swiss brain research initiative that aimed to create a digital reconstruction of the mouse brain
The project was founded in REDACTED 2005 by the REDACTED Institute of REDACTED Switzerland
The project ended in December REDACTED
Its mission was to use biologically-detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the mammalian brain to identify the fundamental principles of brain
structure and function

The project was headed by the founding director REDACTED who also launched the REDACTED Project
Using a Blue Gene supercomputer running Michael Hines's NEURON, the simulation involved a biologically realistic model of neurons and an empirically reconstructed model connectome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome

>A connectome is a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, and may be thought of as its "wiring diagram"

>There were a number of collaborations, including the REDACTED, which is coordinated by the Supercomputing and Visualization Center of REDACTED, and others run by universities and independent laboratories

In REDACTED, the project made its first model of a neocortical column with simplified neurons
In November REDACTED, it completed an initial model of the rat neocortical column
This marked the end of the first phase, delivering a data-driven process for creating, validating, and researching the neocortical column

Neocortical columns are considered by some researchers to be the smallest functional units of the neocortex,
They are thought to be responsible for higher functions such as conscious thought. In humans, each column is about 2 mm in length, has a diameter of 0.5 mm and contains about 60,000 neurons
Rat neocortical columns are very similar in structure but contain only 10,000 neurons and 10^8 synapses

In 2009, REDACTED claimed that a "detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next REDACTED....