【新聞】Intelligence Realm : 2008

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　2008-05-31 06:29
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　Status Update - May 31, 2008
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There have been 41.8 billion neurons simulated since the project start. The total number of processors (i.e. CPU's) for all machines is 9489.

We fixed the participant profiles pages. We finalized the design of the Technology Outline image. We would like to thank Michael Schmatz for helping with that.

We have created a new project section called Learning Center. We will post in here images, links to books, web sites and videos in an effort to provide education materials about artificial intelligence and the brain.

Teams: 563 Computers: 5038 Participants: 2865

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　2008-06-08 06:29
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　Status Update - Jun 8, 2008
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There have been 52.2 billion neurons simulated since the project start. The total number of processors (i.e. CPU's) for all machines is 9932.

We switched to the fixed credit system. Each work unit will receive 75 credits. We finalized the design of the Cleaner Future image.

Teams: 572 Computers: 5207 Participants: 2949

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　2008-06-30 06:29
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　Status Update - Jun 30, 2008
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There have been over 80 billion neurons simulated since the project start. The total number of processors (i.e. CPU's) for all machines is 11557.

We finalized the design of the New Horizons and Safeguarding People images. We implemented the dynamic update of the number of simulated neurons in the Results section.

We identified three major open problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence. For more details see the Science section of the forum.

Teams: 603 Computers: 5953 Participants: 3249

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　2008-07-12 08:55
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　Status Update - Jul 12, 2008
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The phase I of the project has been completed. A couple of days ago we reached the level of 100 billion neurons simulated. We would like to thank all the participants involved for their patience and effort.
We continue as planned. The total number of processors (i.e. CPU's) for all machines is 12423.

We added the 100 Billion and Reverse Engineering the Brain images in Learning Center, along with a couple of new books.

We will upgrade the database server on the week starting July 14, in order to be able to cope with the increased number of machines. For a short time the database will be down, while some portions of the web site will continue to work.

Teams: 618 Computers: 6383 Participants: 3387

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　2008-08-04 08:55
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　Status Update - Aug 4, 2008
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We have updated the database server. We are now running MySQL on Fedora 64-bit. The upgrade was smooth. The total number of processors (i.e. CPU's) for all machines is 14301.

We have simulated over 160 billion neurons to date. The number of neurons simulated per day varies and is around 2.4 billion. The potential to run increasingly large simulations is out there.

We finalized a Technical Paper about the project. We submitted it to a number of magazines and newspapers but no organization picked that up. Once the applications will be more developed the project will start receiving media coverage.

We started preparing the environment for running simulations on a separate internal network. We are using disk-less machines and we tried to find a custom LiveCD version of Linux that included the development tools but without success. LiveCD is a copy of an operating system that can run off a CD/DVD drive and doesn't need a hard drive.
We have been through a good number of versions (e.g. Fedora LiveCD, Ubuntu LiveCD, PCLinuxOS, Knoppix, NimbleX, SysRescueCD...). In the process some of the machines have been disabled due to partition issues. We haven't lost any data in the process. We still need to solve this issue but we will not spend any more time on that for now. We will also be looking at some other solutions as suggested by JediRock and other participants.

We added the No-Brain Robots, Symbiosis and Housework Future images in Learning Center.

The Knowledge Acquisition module has over 6000 sentences. This is a good start but we will need down the road to be able to feed the system a lot more information. One solution would be to
continue to rely on the participants entering sentences but this is not feasible for the long-term future. We have also tried to identify books that are in the public domain that can be reused for commercial purposes as we will need in the future, but most of the ones found carried a copyright notice due to the fact
that the person that entered the data has propriety rights over the final file, even though the book is in the public domain.
We have been looking for another solution and we decided that it would be best if we can develop an automated program to load public data from the Internet. This type of program is similar to a web crawler or site indexer. It will retrieve web pages of other data files and we will then load them into the system. We will explore more in that direction.

The volume of work is high so we will be looking for more development resources. We are also looking for a collaborative development platform. We continue as planned.

Teams: 651 Computers: 7274 Participants: 3702

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　2008-09-16 06:50
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　200 Billion Neurons - Sep 16, 2008
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We have simulated over 200 billion neurons to date. The computing goal is to reach 500 billion neurons.

We have implemented the alphabet into the system, by loading the character set from the Knowledge Acquisition
module. As soon as the initial version of the neuronal generator is up, we are looking forward to start loading words,
then sentences and then complex information.

We have started implementing the basis of the future neuronal system, by writing API's, and building libraries and applications.
We are nearing completion of the file addressing system. With M. and Jord's help we moved forward with subversion, the source
code control aplication. With Serg's help we developed CRC32 functions for data protection during transmissions from one machine to another.

Teams: 704 Computers: 8344 Participants: 4202

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　2008-10-14 06:58
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　Status Update - Oct 14, 2008
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We have simulated over 250 billion neurons to date. We have released two Mac versions of the application, with JediRock's help. We have made some progress in regards to data visualization, which is needed in order to display neurons and visualize single spikes and spike trains.

There have been some recent developments in regards to releasing a GPU version, participation at a summit and submission of a technical paper to a journal; we received a couple of invitations for these items.

Over the next couple of months, we will be able to advance more rapidly with the application development.

Source Code Downloads: 2757 Teams: 740 Computers: 9234 Participants: 4543

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　2009-01-07 05:58
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　Status Update - Jan 7, 2009
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We have simulated over 450 billion neurons to date. We have made great progress in regards to development over the last couple of months. We more than doubled the number of *.c and *.h source code files.
We managed to advance with most of the simulator features. We completed the networking and inter-process communication using sockets and a server architecture. We are now able to use large number of machines
and processes to serve and process data. We have finalized the message format between machines and applications, the error functions and standard error definitions, the data file types, the sensor and control file format.
We completed around 60% of the setup and 95% of the configuration script, building process, folder names and location, definition of libraries for applications, logging standards and formats, application
configuration, daemons creation, neuronal modules and a number of other features. We also finalized additional small routines for process initialization and completion, retrieval of memory information and machine limitations,
folder and file creation. We wrote a lot of comments and some additional documentation because the system is becoming increasingly complex. An estimated 70% of the simulator is completed and also
there are higher percentages for the other applications. We estimate that another 6 to 9 months are still required to get to the point where we can consider most of the applications completed and we can shift
most of the development to cellular models. This software infrastructure would require little or no changes down the road because it was built with scalability and processing of large volumes of data in mind.
We have made great progress yet still much more work is required. Especially in the area of data visualization, where we managed to get only a handful of features implemented.
Unfortunately the lack of resources did not allowed us to continue with the development of the other features for the project, mainly the GPU application and the video but we are working on that now.
We will focus now on that and we will release first the project video, followed by the GPU application for Windows. We continue as planned.

Initially when we started working on the project, around a year and a half ago, some participants and site viewers considered it exploratory work, something that will not last, nor was meant to achieve the unthinkable,
thinking machines. Lately we find out that the opinions are changing and this no longer seems unattainable in the eyes of many people. Given enough computer power and large number of participants, the public opinion
will change and this simple fact, that something like this is possible and it is within our grasp, will make many things possible. For that, we can only thank to the thousands of participants that have joined the project
and showed what it can be possible. They deserve a lot of credit for that.

Source Code Downloads: 3491 Teams: 826 Computers: 11257 Participants: 5462