The simulation was made possible by the development of advanced novel data   
   structures for the simulation software NEST. The relevance of the achievement   
   for neuroscience lies in the fact that NEST is open-source software freely   
   available to every    
   scientist in the world.    
      
   Using NEST, the team, led by Markus Diesmann in collaboration with Abigail   
   Morrison both now with the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at Jülich,   
   succeeded in simulating a network consisting of 1.73 billion nerve cells   
   connected by 10.4 trillion    
   synapses. To realize this feat, the program recruited 82,944 processors of the   
   K Computer. The process took 40 minutes, to complete the simulation of 1   
   second of neuronal network activity in real, biological, time.    
      
   http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-largest-neuronal-network-s   
   mulation-date.html   
      
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