Oak Ridge National Laboratory
April 1, 2015 – Supercomputing resources at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will support a new initiative designed to advance how scientists digitally reconstruct and analyze individual neurons in the human brain. Led by the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the BigNeuron project aims to create a common platform for analyzing the 3-D structure of neurons. “We have to start from the images of neurons and figure out where all the ‘wires’ are and how they are connected, and this process requires massive computational power,” said ORNL’s Arvind Ramanathan. ORNL supercomputers will be used to run, test and evaluate the algorithms that the Allen Institute and a worldwide consortium are developing as part of the BigNeuron project.
