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Markus Diesmann

Markus Diesmann

Director, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Jülich Research Centre

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"Since 2014, our software can simulate about one percent of the neurons in the human brain with all their connections. To achieve this feat, the software requires the entire main memory of petascale supercomputers."

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Racing toward the digital brain

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Leading JUPITER brain simulation project

Scientists at Germany's Jülich Research Centre demonstrated in mid-January 2026 that Europe's most powerful supercomputer can simulate 20 billion spiking neurons—matching the scale of the human cerebral cortex. The team plans to combine this capability with anatomical brain data to run full-cortex simulations, a technical milestone that has eluded researchers since the field's founding in the 1980s.

Updated Apr 23