Jayson_Virissimo comments on [Paper] Simulation of a complete cell - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 25 July 2012 03:36:46AM *  2 points [-]

If you can get that kind of performance out of Matlab, then you should be able to simulate every cell of C. elegans in real time with < 1,000 cores with a rewrite in C. Some researchers at the University of Glasgow already have a working 1,000 core processor (using FPGAs). I'm gonna to have to do some updating on this.

Comment author: gwern 25 July 2012 01:35:38PM 2 points [-]

The metabolism, anyway. This is a high-level model of the metabolism of a simple bacteria, and I'm not sure how close one could consider it to a neuron which was part of a functioning neural network, for example.