Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain (SMHB)

On 10 July 2025, the 10th Science Evening of the Hector Fellow Academy entitled ‘ Brain, Computer, AI — Soon Hard to Distinguish?’ will take place in Düsseldorf and via livestream in cooperation with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Forschungszentrum Jülich.

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre operates computers of the highest performance class. In the SMHB we co-design modular supercomputing, interactive supercomputing and scalable data infrastructures towards exascale through use cases from neuroscience.

We develop scalable methods for data analytics and simulation to cope with the enormous size and multiscale complexity of the brain. Productive loops between theory, simulation, data analytics and empirical neuroscience are created.

The INM-1 builds 3D models of the human brain at the level of individual cells and nerve fibers by processing terabytes of image data. This is only possible by developing complex distributed workflows on the Supercomputing systems in Jülich and the development of new AI approaches. The exascale supercomputer JUPITER makes it possible to analyse the brain with an unprecedented level of detail.

On 10 July 2025, the 10th Science Evening of the Hector Fellow Academy entitled ‘ Brain, Computer, AI — Soon Hard to Distinguish?’ will take place in Düsseldorf and via livestream in cooperation with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Forschungszentrum Jülich.